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Hardcore History #52 · April 23, 2014 · 200m

Blueprint for Armageddon III

Hardcore History

Trench warfare solidifies on the Western Front. Carlin describes the industrialization of killing — machine guns, poison gas, artillery barrages — and the psychological toll on soldiers trapped in conditions that no previous generation had experienced.

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Highlights

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Technology can outpace human moral adaptation
WWI introduced killing technologies (machine guns, gas, artillery) that overwhelmed the human capacity to process what was happening. Soldiers' minds broke before their bodies.
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Sunk cost fallacy operates at civilizational scale
By 1915, both sides knew the war couldn't be won quickly, but the cost already paid made stopping psychologically impossible. 'We can't have sacrificed so many for nothing.'
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