I see so much opportunity for development lost by the redirection of money into our military (and away from education and science for example). The argument that war improves science is not a polemic truism, merely a historical fact. We need to break away from these preconceived notions of our need to extend ourselves militarily into the rest of the world. Could we not have a far greater impact on global stabilization through developments at home?
Consider your far reaching futurist predictions of gloom and doom without our military influence in the world, they all go out the window with simple ideas like "free energy" or "teleportation" (You quoted Captain Picard before so give me a break on that last one).
I believe we could support our allies more by creating a peaceful future with them. Not in some Neville Chamberlain way... let's smite our enemies and the enemies of our allies sure - but on a intellectual and ideological level so as to salt the "earth" they walk on.
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I see so much opportunity for development lost by the redirection of money into our military (and away from education and science for example). The argument that war improves science is not a polemic truism, merely a historical fact. We need to break away from these preconceived notions of our need to extend ourselves militarily into the rest of the world. Could we not have a far greater impact on global stabilization through developments at home?
Consider your far reaching futurist predictions of gloom and doom without our military influence in the world, they all go out the window with simple ideas like "free energy" or "teleportation" (You quoted Captain Picard before so give me a break on that last one).
I believe we could support our allies more by creating a peaceful future with them. Not in some Neville Chamberlain way... let's smite our enemies and the enemies of our allies sure - but on a intellectual and ideological level so as to salt the "earth" they walk on.