(Hmm... an interesting article in the trending page? That's rare!)

Peace takes some efforts, and I am afraid that peace actually makes humans slack off of that effort. It's just what has happened since I was born in the early seventies - and especially what is happening now. When I was a kid there was still a strong shadow from WWII hanging over everything. At least here in Europe (I guess that the US always was a bit to slack on the peace effort, maybe because they never really had a war on their own ground). The fact that my granparents and their generation still lived - the ones that were grown-ups under the war - made a big difference between my generation and the generations born from the 1980s and ahead. The direct link to the horror of war really means a lot. I have known two people who went to concentration camp, and I have known a person who lost her whole family in the bombing of Hamburg. I think really meeting people that suffered that much changes you, and by the simple rolling of time these people die, and you have to try to learn from books and movies instead of people.

I scares the shit out of me that the whole thing seems to repeat itself.