Alcohol And Other Things

Featured image: Horace Vernet, La bataille de Valmy

Alcohol sucks. Mild consumption leads to a temporary high. Heavy consumption (or even mild consumption, if you get drunk pretty fast) turns humans into monsters. [Caution: Side effects include monsters being turned to humans.] It also causes diseases- really scary ones too. This is textbook; we all know what alcohol does. Yet many of us drink it. Ditto for cigarettes. Ditto for drugs.

Junk food is bad for you (obvious, given the name; no?). Yet you go on eating it. Come January the first, you see gyms, jogging parks and streets teeming with people trying to get rid of the junk their bodies now have (credits: junk food). These people don’t stick to their respective health-freak-phases for more than a week. They’re too weak-willed for that. Don’t smile, because you’re one of these people. Admit it now, you smug bastard. You’re human.

We are all humans. We are shitty in general. We are cretins. Totes. We’re pretty much the only animals that keep on doing stuff that they know is bad for them over₁ and over₂ and over₃… and over_n-1 and over_n.

Many wars and battles have been fought throughout human history. They have all been for/against certain causes. Whether or not a cause for which a battle/war was fought was right or wrong depends upon which party’s version of the story you hear. Hitler’s antisemitism and his intention to wipe out Jewish people was a legit noble cause according to some people. Correction: many people. Ask the damned souls of Hitler, Göring, Himmler, etc. They’ll all agree. Heck, why rely on dead people for answers? You can ask Neo-Nazis (there’s a disturbingly large amount of them); they’ll agree too.

Regardless of the cause, these wars seem ridiculous today. Especially the territorial ones. Fighting like dogs over a piece of land, albeit a huge piece, seems crazy to me, for one, dunno about you.

A war today would be devastating and would cause indescribable losses to all parties involved, even the ones that aren’t involved.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Albert Einstein (maybe)

Now I don’t know if this was actually said by Einstein, because he is misquoted very often. Also, I’m too lazy to do extensive reading to figure out if these are indeed his words. But anyway, whoever said this was correct.

Wars are fought for a purpose, but none of the purposes for which the wars till date have been fought were worth thousands and millions of people losing their lives.

We won’t have any huge-ass wars in the future, because we all know they’re a bad idea. A really bad idea. Oh, but wait! I almost forgot… we’re humans! Remember the over-and-over law I mentioned in the third paragraph? Looking at the pattern we seem to show when it comes to all things horrible, we might just have a buncha wars/battles soon.

And then? Then we’ll always have sticks and stones.