GUNS OF AUGUST

1. " Guns of August, also published as August 1914, is a volume of history by Barbara Tuchman. It is centered around the first month of World War I. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict." (= Wikipedia)
2. Dr. Freud, Dr. Wilhelm Reich and Dr. Carl Jung: WHY WAR !
3. "WARS" are caused by "ABUSE !" "Abuse," in families as in Nations is caused by a feelings of "Isolation -loneliness, ( an existential NON-EXISTENCE, as in "Nobody cares if
4. I live or die" , -so I will "affirm" my existence, -I will prove my value, by being violent) to people, and the environment. (Now, see below, a "low-grade" infection may cause erratic behavior, but that's another issue.)
5. KAISER WILHELM had a"...traumatic breech birth left him with a withered left arm due to Erb's palsy, making his left arm about 6 inches (15 centimeters) shorter than his right arm, which he tried with some success to conceal. In many photos he carries a pair of white gloves in his left hand to make the arm seem longer, holds his left hand with his right, or has his crippled arm on the hilt of a sword or holding a cane to give the effect of a useful limb posed at a dignified angle. Historians have suggested that this disability affected his emotional development.^{[1]" Kaiser Wilhelm had to prove to himself, and  "the World" his own self-worth, thence World War One ! A little jump in logic, from "Family Abuse" to birth trauma, but to the "ego, the personality, the sub-conscience"  awareness "BIRTH TRAUMA" is body and psychological abuse, therefore is the cause of war ( = violence).}
6. ^{Ignorance of the above has caused almost all historical mischief, and the AMERICAN PEOPLE are some of the most woefully ignorant. Now, we have another kind of violence in Ferguson, Missouri (U.S.A.). "Abuse," can come in many forms. In the United State if a person does not have money, or a job and is poor that will open a person to economic abuse and generally, "social stigma," a social "out-cast." In many cases, both the police and the criminal need  medical and mental health services. Repeat, a "low-grade" infection may cause erratic behavior,..." hyper-vigilance, caused by a "caffeine, or antihistamine high (probably, other drugs,") the human body trying to fight off an infection and a historically masculine problem, males who are not secure in their supposed socially imposed stereotype macho roles think they must become violent to prove a dispute. Idleness, just plain boredom has always been a way to start a fight; be violent just to be doing something. Jobs with good pay, family and good social connections; some sort of hope for personal development, and the "moral encouragement" to stay away from people who are trouble-makers are what every person needs. (JOKE-THAT-MAY-BE-SERIOUS, both for Kaiser and "Street Gangs," link... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTPIccD5JE)}
7. ^{See links...}  World War I Centenary | Continuations and Beginnings
   ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
   

   
   

   I was interested to read Suzanne Grogan's post about the largely unacknowledged, and certainly incompletely explored question of spiritualism in the Great War.

8. Why Germany doesn't want to remember the fist world war ...

   www.spectator.co.uk/features/9276691/lest-we-remember/
   

   
   

   Kaiser Wilhelm II - World War One ... His personal objective — to deter the Kaiser from going to war — fell flat too. ..... that “without war, inferior or decaying races would easily choke the growth of healthy budding elements”...