Young people fight old people’s wars. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
My dream of what could be.
In 2024, after realizing that humanity had been at war for some 6,000 years with seldom a break of even a single year – and very often in several places at once – a simple thought appeared in at least a hundred young minds scattered across our planet:
It’s not the evil old men who keep all the wars going; it’s us, the 18-year-olds.
The problem, they saw, was that they kept obeying the bitter and rapacious old men. Swept along by authority and the fear of standing alone, they had been – for millennia – marching off to kill other young people exactly like themselves.
The 18-year-olds on the opposite sides of all the battle lines had been doing precisely the same thing: obeying the orders of their own bitter and rapacious old men.
And then a very simple thought struck them: If the 18-year-olds in every country agreed to not fight, who would?
After all, the old men never fought for themselves.
And so, being a generation gifted with worldwide communication, they began to find each other and to talk among themselves.
