{"id":10215,"date":"2014-08-23T06:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2014-08-23T06:13:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T05:13:27","slug":"an-open-letter-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10215","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Dear humanity, you have such potential for awesomeness which you ruin with a failure of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Territorial ownership is bogus.<\/p>\n<p>Set against the context of the age of our planet&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just a few seconds ago all of southern Spain belonged to\u00a0Africa<\/li>\n<li>A couple of weeks ago the whole of North America belonged to the Indians<\/li>\n<li>And a bunch of decades ago, the entire\u00a0planet belonged to dinosaurs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you, humanity, do you honestly believe that in a couple of years time it&#8217;s going to matter to whoever walks the surface of this planet\u00a0what flag you hang on a pole outside your house today?<\/p>\n<p>Also.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear weapons are unusable.<\/p>\n<p>The minute you use one, you have lost the battle, and the war, because, with Mutually Assured Destruction, you will be dead in just a minute or two.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s be clear about a point of inescapable logic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having nuclear weapons didn&#8217;t stop Irish terrorists blowing up military targets in the UK and abroad<\/li>\n<li>Having nuclear weapons didn&#8217;t stop religious nutcases murder people on and below the streets of London<\/li>\n<li>Having nuclear weapons didn&#8217;t stop Argentina from invading the Falklands<\/li>\n<li>And in case you didn&#8217;t notice, having the world&#8217;s biggest nuclear weapons arsenal has not prevent tens of thousands of Americans being killed in attacks on civilian and military targets at home in the US and abroad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So stop thinking small, humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Stop thinking like children.<\/p>\n<p>Grow up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to take the long view and sweat the big stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And stop putting politicians who have never seen military action in charge of anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s their point of reference?<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s their learned experience?<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s their added value?<\/p>\n<p>Get the big issues sorted, humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Feed the hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Clothe the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Care for the aged.<\/p>\n<p>Treat the sick.<\/p>\n<p>Educate everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Teach tolerance and respect.<\/p>\n<p>Because, when you shoot people and blow people up because you don&#8217;t like the deity they choose to believe in?<\/p>\n<p>Or when you slaughter people because they hang what you perceive to be the wrong flag outside their house.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when you&#8217;re not thinking properly.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when you&#8217;re being a bunch of morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity. Dear humanity, you have such potential for awesomeness which you ruin with a failure of thinking. Here&#8217;s what I mean. Territorial ownership is bogus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}