smedley butler – An Autonomous Agent / exploring the noosphere Sun, 15 Oct 2017 02:49:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 War Is A Racket – Major General Smedley Butler /2015/03/war-is-a-racket-major-general-smedley-butler/ /2015/03/war-is-a-racket-major-general-smedley-butler/#disqus_thread Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:34:43 +0000 https://anautonomousagent.com/?p=1028 Major General Smedley Butler had a profound awareness of human behavior. He wrote a pamphlet and speech called War is a Racket, which you can listen to below. It provides a first hand account on the motivations of war. Human collective behavior does not change over small periods of time and it strikes me how relevant his words are today.

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