The phenomenon of war and the Bouthoul Institute
The French scientist Gaston Bouthoul stood in front of this phenomenon in contemplation, after the Second World War, and was surprised at the lack of scientific institutes studying such a frightening phenomenon, which attacks the human species and threatens its existence (Why have researchers been slow to establish a true social science? Why has the most important social phenomenon not encouraged any researcher to objectively study its characteristics and functional aspects?
It is strange that physical and organic diseases have countless laboratories, sanatoriums and hospitals, while this terrifying social phenomenon has no institute that studies its structure, researches its causes, knows its function and thus manages to find a vaccine protective against this difficult and deadly disease. stubborn disease. (For half a century, we have seen a proliferation of laboratories dedicated to the study of cancer, tuberculosis, plague or yellow fever, and they are multiplying every day. Why has she not not lead to the creation of any research institute, since this war alone claims more victims than all these calamities combined?)
It seems that indifference towards this phenomenon is due to a spirit of "habit" and not of "astonishment", which inspires curiosity and discovery. Is there anyone among us who has not participated, heard or suffered from war, a little or a lot?
In 1971, Gaston Bouthoul was able to create the "French Institute for the Science of War", where the phenomenon of war was studied over more than two centuries of the recent period (1740 - 1974), and defined its characteristics, so that it could be considered a war. Border skirmishes and killings of dozens of people are not considered war!
Thus, six conditions were set for them to fall under the concept of war, such as (more than a thousand deaths, the participation of more than one country and the continuation of more than a year!). It was found that 366 armed conflicts took place during the above-mentioned period, so that only rare years passed without an armed conflict. These terrible conflicts cost the lives of 85 million people, including only 38 million deaths during the Second World War! What madness is this, what nonsense is this?
In war, young men, especially men, die, because war in general is masculine. Thus, productive capacity disappears, society is destroyed, the nation withers and its energy declines, and may even lead to annihilation in one way or another. A country like “Paraguay” has not yet recovered from the ravages of the war of the 1870s (it was invaded by three neighboring countries, Brazil from the north, Argentina from the south and Uruguay between). It took Germany a century to recover, and the Church in both countries (Christian and in which the Church prohibits polygamy) was forced to enact a law allowing polygamy, to compensate men who died during the war. Germany lost 6.5 million dead in World War II, and the biggest loser in the last war was the Soviet Union, with 22 million dead according to the lowest estimates. As for Yugoslavia, one in ten people died. What destruction and misery is this?
In the world of insects and animals, we have not found the phenomenon of war, that is to say the mobilization of a large quantity of elements of a certain species, against other elements of the same species, each group killing the other, on orders (from above) what we call the “CHAIN OF COMMAND”, and with terrible tools of destruction, Then he left the bodies without eating them! With the exception of certain sects of ants, on a limited basis, in order to steal food and supplies, it is generally not known in the insect and animal world for one element to kill another simply for the sake of it. pleasure of killing. It may prey on other fish for food, and the lioness pursues the prey to ensure a meal for the lion's family. As for killing (for the sake of killing), only this terrifying creature called man knows!
The so-called law of the jungle is based on the attack of one element on another, in order to eat their flesh. The motive is hunger and the goal is food to preserve the species, not just to kill it, which is present in the human species.
The man continued his mastery of murder, reaching mass graves, as was revealed in 1983 in Spain about this hidden underground cemetery which included thousands of people, gas execution chambers and crematoriums of mass, and the man was evaporated by the nuclear heat which reached 100 million degrees Celsius!
It seems that men played a central role in the making of wars, in the creation of their institutions (armies) and in their practice (battlefields). Armies in the world are male in nature, and therefore women, for reasons we do not precisely understand, are the ones who began agriculture and gave rise to civilization, and women are the ones who bear life and give birth. Life, and it preserves life, and does not participate in extermination, but rather in compensating for the disasters of war, and therefore it is a model modification of the male better adapted to life in this aspect; It was men who dominated the leadership of society, and it seemed that muscular structure and the male hormone (testosterone) played a role of superiority in the early stages of the emergence of civilization, and women were relegated to the rank of categories (vulnerable). ), and thus the males planted the (seed) of war to reap its bitter results on the battlefields. And left them to suffer from its terrifying horrors, and the disease (tetanus) is still in human memory, since the contamination of wounds and the death of wounded fighters are the worst of deaths.