On Tue, 8 May 2018 13:12:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/8/2018 1:08 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2018 11:57:36 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/8/2018 11:32 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2018 06:24:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


The only way to end an arms race is to convince every nation on the
planet to agree to it.

Good luck with that.


At the end of both world wars the winners decided they would divide
the world up into sectors that each would control and the rest of the
world wasn't happy about that either.
Something along those lines might end up being the answer to avoiding
WWIII but nobody in the 2d and 3d world will like it.



Hope for final proof of unfriendly aliens from outer space.

It's really the only way people on this planet will ever agree
to work together as allies.


If you are just using that as a metaphor for a common enemy, you are
right. America forgot about fighting communism to fight the Germans
and the Japanese, then we started right back up on each other.

Have you watched the Oliver Stone "Untold History" show. He definitely
puts the Stone spin on things but there are still a lot of things we
don't hear, backed up by actual footage and news coverage, that he
points out.
It is on Netflix.




I started watching it a couple of weeks ago but fell asleep.
Didn't finish it.


You definitely get the idea he thinks we should have embraced the
communists but the show was fairly well researched and most of the
"facts" seem true, even if taken out of context.
He really hates the Bushes, and the big American corporations who he
blames for most of the problems in the last 120 years. He beats up
every president since McKinley except JFK, who seems to get a pass and
Carter who he calls a good guy but naive.
It is still an entertaining show, just for the amount of archival
footage he managed to dig up, especially the quotes on mike. It was a
perfect "headset" show for me since most of it is in the narrative,
not the pictures. Most documentaries are that way tho. They all seem
to use the same film.