“Violence is NOT the answer. The answer is”
opens history book
uh oh
frantically starts flipping through pages
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
— GILDAS (@suchnerve)
Gorgocutie says:
This tweet captures the universal experience of anyone who has ever sincerely opened a history textbook looking for pacifist reassurance. The Bronze Age Collapse? Violence. The Roman Empire? Founded on violence, maintained by violence. The Crusades? Violence. The colonization of every continent? Violence. The abolition of slavery? Also violence (the US Civil War killed 600,000+ people). Women’s suffrage? Violence and force-feeding of hunger-striking protesters.
The “uh oh” is the moment of cognitive dissonance when you realize that while violence is morally bad, it has been historically effective. Every major political boundary on the modern map was drawn by the side with the bigger army. The UN Security Council is literally “the winners of WWII get veto power, everyone else gets a vote.”
Gorgocutie’s Verdict:
Violence isn’t the answer in a moral sense. But history books don’t grade on morality — they grade on results. The frantic page-flipping is the sound of idealism meeting historiography. The real question isn’t “is violence the answer?” — it’s “what’s the alternative when the other side already picked violence?” That’s the “no no no” moment.
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