- published: 07 May 2016
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War is an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war (and other violence) is usually called peace.
In 2003, Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest problems facing the society of mankind for the next fifty years. In the 1832 treatise On War, Prussian military general and theoretician Carl von Clausewitz defined war as follows: "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."
While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human culture, others argue that it is only inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances. Some scholars argue that the practice of war is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his History of Warfare, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. Another argument suggests that since there are human societies in which warfare does not exist, humans may not be naturally disposed for warfare, which emerges under particular circumstances. The ever changing technologies and potentials of war extend along a historical continuum. At the one end lies the endemic warfare of the Paleolithic[citation needed] with its stones and clubs, and the naturally limited loss of life associated with the use of such weapons. Found at the other end of this continuum is nuclear warfare, along with the recently developed possible outcome of its use, namely the potential risk of the complete extinction of the human species.
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Break it down! ~!
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[Verse 1:]
It's, not, easy bein Ugly
Comin up hopin that people would love me
As a kid in some cheap sneakers and a backpack
Try to make a friend and you end up gettin laughed at
(Ha ha!) When I try to fit with the clique
Or pick up a chick, I felt like I'd been hit with a brick
Cause all I'd ever get was chills from a cold shoulder
Thinkin this'll all change when I grow older
Move to today and it's still the same
As I try to make a "Bang" in this hip-hop thang
See, all I want to do is just rock the mic
Then I heard there's a jam goin off tonight
So I'm knockin... I can't get in
I'm knock, knockin but I can't get in
I'm knock knock knockin but I can't get in
And I can hear the party is about to begin
[Chorus:]
You won't unlock this door
Well what are we gonna do - Break IT DOWN!
You want to close us out
Well what are we gonna do - Break IT DOWN!
You want to build this wall
Well what are we gonna do - Break IT DOWN!
You'll have to watch it fall
Cause what are we gonna do - Break IT DOWN!
Woooooooooo~! {"right, r-right on"}
Woooooooooo~! {"go nuts"}
You, can't, stop us now
We, will, break you down
YOU, CAN'T, STOP US NOW
[Verse 2:]
RRROUGH...
Now I'm a break it down like the Berlin Wall
And give it all I got until the curtain call
Einstein, Andy and I, started this group
To get back to the roots and rock retarded loops
Now here's the scoop - we got signed in '99
Two LP's, performin overseas
Show after show we'd be takin the stage
Straight gettin no sleep, makin minimum wage
Beggin for support from the labels and the press
But they'd look right past us and be like "NEXT! "
They said the sound won't make it today
They don't wanna hear what we're tryin to say
So we're knockin... but we can't get in
We're knock, knockin but we can't get in
We're knock knock knockin but we can't get in
And we can hear the party is about to begin
[Chorus]
WE, WILL, Break YOU DOWN!
Uhh, yeah
One more time break it down!
[Harmonica plays to fade]
"You are ugly mayne! (UGLY UGLY UGLY!) "