War and Conflict Artifact

This picture is Albert Einstein’s point of view on war. He states “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. What Einstein is trying to get across is the idea of humans repeating the past and starting from the beginning again. He believes that war is repetitive and decreases human intelligence because of the fact that they are repeating war over and over again than finding a solution. In addition, by war taking place it involves several amounts of resources and causes a lot of destruction. Einstein is saying that if the process of destruction continues, it will eventually demolish all the resources resulting humans to start back from the beginning.  People will stop trying to look for other alternatives than war and keep resulting to the same actions to consult with the issues that they come across. Furthermore, by war occurring all around many people won’t be able to focus and ponder on other things. This picture better helps me to understand war and conflict because it shows me a point of view which states that war is repetitive. I also believe that by repeating the same actions that don’t result with more positive solutions but negative is completely wrong. It made me think more broadly, and helped me to realize many possible reasons why some countries/nations might result in war. Some may take part in war to show how much power and great technology they have, others may do it to please their ego. Overall, this picture made me think more about the consequences of war and how it begins to happen or why it happens.