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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

This Means War (Volume 2)

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:50.3

Plato once said, only the dead have seen the end of war.

0:57.5

Or I should say that Douglas MacArthur once said that Plato once said that only the dead have seen the end of war, because as near as anyone can tell, Plato did not.

1:08.4

George Santayana once said, only the dead have seen the end of war, but whether he coined

1:13.0

the phrase or not, and whether MacArthur mistook him for Plato somehow is uncertain.

1:19.0

Regardless of who said it, or how many said it, or when it was first said, the point still holds,

1:24.6

as do so many of the great descriptions of war, which are, to a T, admonitions,

1:30.2

laments, or at best, heavily qualified defenses of behavior universally understood to be avoided

1:36.2

whenever possible. The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,

1:42.8

but because he loves what is behind him,

1:45.5

said Chesterton, in about his glowing and endorsement of the practice as literature provides.

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