If events like WW1 and WW2 hadn't happened..

Maora said:
no ww1 ---> Hitler would have been an artist ---> no ww2 ---> no evil Solviet Union.

basically, the world might have been more peaceful, but amrican would have gotten extremely racist and sexest. And i think we would have also be lagging in new advance technology.

Maora said:


Hitler would not become an artist because he was good at buildings (architecture) and not people. WW1 would not change this fact or so called fact. Since WW1 never happened Hitler would have not participated in WW2 anyway. We would probably had to deal with the Solviet Union but probably at a smaller scale than what happened in WW2 and cold war.

mahollo said:


You can't know if we would have had to deal with the Soviet Union due to the fact that a major reason the communists were able to take over Russia was the massive war debt that Russia went through during WWI. Also America didn't have to deal with the Soviet Union in WWII, they were one of our* biggest allies (perhaps the biggest) and the ones to actually storm the Reichstag. WWII was mostly won due to the economic backing of the americans and the military force of the Russians.

*Americans

Pirating_Ninja said:
Also it just came to me though that WW2 is probably what brought anime into american cultures years later after allying with Japan.

Monad said:


If you have 1000 atomic bombs or a 100 doesn't make much difference since everything you need to destroy you can destroy it with a very small amount.


Now about Wars. First i want to say that the Cold war helped a little also.
Now when there is war countries go to what we call "war economy". This economy is basically the idea that we don't give a shit about anything else at this moment, like building streets, schools and staff and basically don't
bother much with internal affairs but instead we give all money to weapons and research for new weapon technology.
Now the ideas for new weapons and technological discoveries that might help are so crazy because the government will give money to any crazy idea that might help win the war, that some scientist are even able to research staff that don't really have much hope on really helping the war not to mention lot's of things get discover in the process of finding something else.
In time of piece a government can't waste huge sums of money even in technological advancements because it must give little money to everything to keep the quality of life and the piece economy running. But in war a government can screw the people and they will still be with her because everyone only cares on how to win the war. So all the money can go to advancements in weaponry and research and those advancements will later find there way in the more conventional life when the war ends.

From studying history i came to the conclusion that big wars seem to be a necessity for human civilization, as awful as that might sounds.
War is like a cleansing.It destroys everything so it can be built new and better in a way. It's like burning an old dying forest to allow nature to give it a new life. Long periods of piece and a certain way of life seem to bring corruption and decay.
We can only hope that we will find a way to live peacefully and still keep our selfs motivated and able to advance away from corruption.
I have a feeling that this way of life is hidden in space. If we reach the point of being able to use the unlimited resources of space we might find the answer.

KyuuA4 said:


Nah. It'll take a World Economic Depression, plus a decade or two of post-collapse destabalization, followed by another rise in despotism among the world's strongest powers.

OR

Someone with a trigger finger on the nuke button.