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2001-09-11 - 10:32 p.m. A Candle in the Wind "Perhaps wars happened because nations had no confidence in a [man's] Word. They were frightened, and so they fought. Nations were like people - they had feelings of inferiority, or superiority, or of revenge, or of fear. It was right to personify nations. Suspicion and fear: Possessiveness and greed: resentment for ancestral wrong: all these seemed to be a part of it." "[Arthur] began to think again, but now it was as clearly as it had ever been. He remembered the aged necromancer who had educated him [using] animals. There were, he remembered, something like half a million different species of animals, of which mankind was only one. ... He remembered the belligerent ants who claimed their boundaries and the pacific geese who did not. He remembered the island they seen ... where all the puffins, razorbills, guilemots and kittiwakes had lived together peacefully, preserving their own kind without war - because they claimed not boundaries. "He saw the problem before him plain as a map. The fantastic thing about war was that it was fought about nothing - literally nothing. Frontiers were imaginary lines. ... It was geography which was the cause - political geography. It was nothing else. Nations did not need to have the same kind of civilization, nor the same kind of leader, any more than the puffins and the guilemots did. They could keep up their own civilizations if they would give each other freedom of trade and free passage and access to the world. "Countries would have to become counties - but counties which would keep their culture and local laws. The imaginary lines need only be unimagined. The airborne birds skipped them by nature. How mad the frontiers had seemed to the Lyo-lyok [birds], and would to Man if only he could learn to fly." -T.H. White's The Once and Future King, Book IV: "A Candle in the Wind" Why would anyone do this? � � � 
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