Zinn and peace
3 years ago
Tonight I watched Howard Zinn and Gino Strada on CSPAN2. The two were speaking about attaining world peace in general.
After watching Zinn lecture, I want to read his People’s History of the United States, and, I guess, his newest book, Just War.
Zinn brought up a supposed obstacle in the way of world peace about which I’ve always wondered: the notion that war is part of human nature. He said people often bring this up. He said that those who bring it up must consider that countries work so very hard to manufacture consent for war (forgive my appreciative allusion to Chomsky). Countries wouldn’t have to work as hard as they do, he said – or work at all – if war is part of human nature.
