On the end of ends

Cited in previous, worth a reprint.

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WW2 ended precisely and meaningfully with VE and VJ day.

Deepstate swore NEVER AGAIN to let a war end. From then on, all wars would continue forever, and the agencies and budgets needed to conduct the wars would go on forever. Korea wasn’t meant to end. Ike ended the active part and left our soldiers there forever with no real work or danger. Unsatisfying but it did end the murder. Vietnam wasn’t meant to end. LBJ and Nixon kept expanding it until finally the inexorable law of logistics forced us to pull out in total defeat and disgrace. No occupation there. The Bush Wars do a better job of running forever. Yugoslavia, Iraq 1, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq 2, Syria, Ukraine, “virus”, Israel, are perfect from a Parkinson viewpoint.

When wars were EXPECTED to end, people were able to plan ahead. Industries started planning postwar products, and consumers started planning postwar life including the postwar products.

Now we can’t look forward to a better future. We only look forward to ever-changing hell, with new fake “threats” every month requiring new forms of tyranny.

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From REA News 1941, an essay by a farm wife whose farm had been connected to the powerlines but hadn’t been fully equipped yet. Appliance manufacturing was shut down for the duration.

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During the war, I’m glad to do as my government requests: Use it up – Wear it out — Make it do — Or do without. We’re managing to get along with the electric facilities that are available.

But for after the war, I’m doing my own personal postwar planning. I’ve learned how much time and back-breaking labor electricity can save my husband and me in running our farm. I know how much better life on an electrified farm can be. I’m making my list now. I’m earmarking my war bonds now.

[INSERT: Bush made a special point of eliminating war bonds. He didn’t want to give peasants the power of lending money to the government, and didn’t want to pay interest to peasants.]

After the war, I’m going to have a modern kitchen with running hot and cold water. I’ll have a refrigerator and a deep freezer. A mixer and a hot plate. An electric range and a washer and an ironer. We’ll tell time with an electric clock and listen in on a new radio. We’ll have modern plumbing in the house and I’m going to have an electric sewing machine. We may even have air conditioning and television and a bacteria-killing lamp. I expect we’ll even have some things we don’t know about today.

We’ll have henhouse lights and running water pumped by electricity to the henhouse, the barn, the milk house and the garden. We’ll have watering cups in the dairy and an electric milker. And we’ll have an electric separator and a milk cooler. Electric motors will take the place of muscles.

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I find it interesting that air conditioning and television were firm predictions. AC was becoming popular in business and industry but not for home use. TV was still experimental. Anti-bacterial UV lamps were briefly featured in Admiral fridges after the war, then disappeared for unknown reasons. Perhaps CDC wanted to keep us vulnerable.