Word: andreski
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...look at the spread of industrial civilization throughout the world, we find that its chief cause was the overwhelming military superiority of the industrialized over unindustrialized states." CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Except for the hunt, intertribal warfare was mankind's first significantly large collective action. In this respect, Andreski says, the organization required to set up armies served as a useful model for government. Andreski cites as one example the development of the infantry phalanx by the ancient Greeks. Individual force was pooled into collective force-a lesson writ large in the philosophy of mass democracy. DEMOCRACY. War is a great...
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Jerome D. Frank, who shares many of Andreski's views, is convinced that a major nuclear exchange is inevitable unless nations stop building nuclear arsenals. "Nothing is more certain and inexorable than the law of chance," Frank writes in Sanity & Survival, his recent study of human aggression. "Present policies involve a continuing risk of nuclear war; the longer the risk continues, the greater the probability of war; and if the probability continues long enough, it approaches certainty...
...such men as Andreski, Frank and Bouthoul present the case for war? Not because they believe in war-certainly none of them do-but because they entertain the view that war is an inevitable adjunct, and in many ways the architect, of the civilization that man has built. When asked if he really believes that war is beneficial, Andreski replies: "That depends on whether you think technological civilization is beneficial. Personally, I like it, but I'm not convinced it is a viable creation. It may destroy itself." Destruction was the first and still remains the cardinal function...