I am a plow. First of all, what is a plow? A plow is a device used to prepare the soil for planting crops. In reality there are many things that can be considered a plow and one of them that I wanted to focus on in this blog is war. War itself in my opinion is the plow that laid the foundation for a better future. It creates chaos and destruction in the process which is preparing the soil as referring to human society that’s necessary to bring about an era of peace and prosperity which would be the crops. Proven in many instances of history, war itself was a necessity in order to bring about the great changes that didn’t exist before.
As in the revolutionary war between the American colonies and Britain, the war took away many lives and cities were destroyed from the fighting but without it, America would’ve never gained its independence. Without independence, the United States today might have never existed and people could still be living under the tyranny of Britain. Also war could be the plow that creates unity in a country which was true in China. Before the second Sino-Japanese war, China was in a state of chaos due to the civil war known as the War of Liberation caused by the fighting between the Communist party and the Nationalist party. If the war with Japan never happened, then the two opposing parties wouldn’t have cooperated and formed the Second United Front to counter the Japanese army. Also without the fighting that happen after the war, mainland China would still be involved in civil wars between these two parties instead of being united under one government as it is in present day.
Chaos and mass destruction had occurred many times throughout history and without the existence of them to lay the foundations; human society might be in a worse shape today. War will most definitely cause despair and pain to the people in the process but how can there be prosperity without destruction? Similarly, how can we construct more advanced buildings without first tearing down the old buildings that’s standing in its way?
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Does this mean you consider peace as something that yield the way of development?
ReplyDeleteI consider war to be method that yields the most development because people are forced to advance. Peace itself doesn't provide the same circumstances for mass amount of development but it does develop society at the expanse of not having to lose too many lives. If there were too many wars, then society would plummet itself into chaos so only a certain amount of war should be permitted. Also if there were some other method that provides increasing amount of development but not losing that many lives, then that would be better.
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