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Review: Repeat: A Warning from History – Dennis Glover (Black Inc.)
Are we living in a pre-war rather than a post-war world? This is a legitimate
question, given that there are more than 120 armed conflicts worldwide. The
International Crisis Group has noted that 2024 began with:
wars burning in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine and peacemaking in crisis.
Worldwide, diplomatic efforts to end fighting are failing. More leaders are
pursuing their ends militarily. More believe they can get away with it.
In his latest book,
Repeat: A Warning from History, Australian writer Dennis
Glover uses the past to illuminate our dire present situation.
Repeat is a short book divided into two parts: Tragedy and Farce. Each part
consists of five chapters with a repeated sequence of titles. These chapters
address the five stages that triggered the second world war and could trigger a
global war if repeated. The key stages are:
Sowing the wind (creating difficult economic conditions)
Populism (allowing those willing to exploit hatred to gain power)
Savagery (descending into an era of murder and violence)
Preliminary war (letting populists plan and win early conflicts)
Consequences (waking up to the reality of massacres and global war).
According to Glover, we are in danger of repeating the mistakes of the 1920s
and 1930s, which led to the most destructive war in history."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
