![]() ![]() The husband or the wife cannot confront the other, cannot confront second dynamic consequences, cannot confront the economic burdens, and so we have domestic strife. Whether we apply this to domestic quarrels or to insects, to garbage dumps or Picasso, one can always trace the beginning of any existing problem to an unwillingness to confront. Problems start with an inability to confront anything. We are looking here at the basic anatomy of all problems. As each new element which man cannot confront is added to elements he has not been able to confront so far, man engages himself upon a decreasing ability to handle war. The invention of the longbow, gunpowder, heavy naval cannon, machine guns, liquid fire and the hydrogen bomb add only more and more certainty that war will continue. The idea of making war so terrible that no one will be able to fight it is the exact reverse of fact-if one wishes to end war. It could be said that war continues as a threat to man because man cannot confront war. The first step of handling anything is gaining an ability to face it. That which a person can confront (face without flinching or avoiding) he can handle.
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