Why don’t people learn from history?
History has taught us that anyone with ideas of world domination has gone on to expand their empire but only to an extent … after which they have all faced their downfall. Be it Ghengis Khan or Alexander the Great or be it Hitler, anyone who has tried it, has eventually faced their doom. Yet people … countries do not learn. The struggle for power goes on.
I used to wonder how people can be brainwashed into thinking that a person of a certain race or religion is such a threat that they need to be emiminated at any cost. And I wondered how and what can change a normal person so much that they can be bullied into that way of thinking?
Looking back in retrospect I could not understand. May be because things like these don’t happen in a day … they happen over time. A series of events whether real or planted lead to brainwashing people to a certain way of thinking.
I wondered what could lead to one country invading another while people watched and did nothing or even justified the act. But now I know that countries will be invaded in the name of peace and in the name of freedom. And people will watch! And there are those who will cheer!
The struggle for power goes on in the name of peace, freedom and protection. It has happened before … and it will happen again!