Doom doom doomdiddy doom,

“War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing… except ending slavery, developing technology, over throwing greedy dictators and establishing independence. Other than that absolutely nothing. “ Some lyrics just don’t work.

This is a topic that has been popping up quite often. But since discussing lyrics that seem silly is silly I’m going to chat about: War!

Almost everyday everyone is randomly talking to someone who is quite convinced that either the world will end, we will be attacked by communist, extremist or zombies and the world will end or we will reach the final chapter in a grand story and we will all be saved (right before the world ends).Reading the newspaper explains why people feel like this(does or President really need two planes worthR1.6bn? ).

The first message I want to purvey in this post is simple. Stop it! (that’s stop doom saying and not stop reading kids!)

I’m planning to live on to the ripe old age of 500 thank you very much. 150 years here, 200 years on a space ship flying  to some sister planet earth and the rest of my time colonising said planet. Remember my name because I’m going to be famous on two planets.

Still think that we are going to wipe ourselves out? There is one good reliable reason why that is very unlikely. It’s not profitable. War has always been about gain. Whether it is for oil or land or money. Wiping out an entire country not only potentially destroys the resource, it also destroys the work force responsible for that resource. Don’t argue that they will bring their own workforce because who is going to feed, clothe and shelter them? So we aren’t blowing ourselves up soon.

This doesn’t mean there isn’t war. It is a sad and terrible thing but if it weren’t for war you wouldn’t be reading this. Just ask this silly sod …

The person in this picture is an idiot by the way.

If it weren’t for the war, Alan Turing might not have had the passion he had for algorithms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

War creates necessity. Necessity breeds demand. Demand needs to be met with supply. Supply can be improved with technology. War is the reason we aren’t still playing with lions in the coliseum. War and a gay guy is the reason we get to play “The elder scrolls V :Skyrim” this weekend.

It’s not so much that war is a good thing but rather that humans are bad. We excel when pushed and when we excel we become power hungry. That is why we will never be extinct. Ignore point in case of zombie apocalypse.