I’m not a fan of war. They made us believe in it when we were kids. War films, plastic kits of war planes, tanks etc. Now I am old I know war is a profit machine, it’s also handy for culling the population and for destruction of the old.

I never knew that there used to be three train stations in Norwich, UK. I lived there for a bit. City Station, bombed to bits in WW2. Then replaced with a pre-fab station. Part of the M&GN. A section of lines serving rural communities. How profitable was it it ever going to be? Axed in the 60’s. A tragic summing up of human kind. We make and destroy. See this about Norwich City Station.

Just and aside about Norwich City station. I worked at East Anglian Engraving briefly. If I’d known it was built on the site of City Station I’d never have worked there, bad juju.

Something troubles me. The bombing raids that were designed to take out historic buildings… they usually missed churches, cathedrals, castles. But hit things like stations, the east end of London…. just saying… odd isn’t it? Ok, factories makes sense, but residential areas? Working class areas….

But the loss of the M&GN makes me sick too….

Back to the model kits of warplanes. Do you look up at those flying war machines and like them? I used to, until I realised that they have nothing to do with me. They are killing machines and are hateful. I used to make Spitfire kits and never added the guns. It is a nice looking plane but I didn’t want to put the guns on it. And the Lancaster? A bus to send young men to their deaths. The Lancaster and its like give me the creeps.

Of course, since WW1 we haven’t stopped the war thing as a species. Too much money in it. They are re-inventing war. Whatever the purpose of it is, it can be changed into a new type of tyranny. Quotes from Orwell, and Assange, summed up as: “the objective is endless war”. 1984 certainly shows what that is like: it’s not specifically a war between countries, as a war against the people. In 1984 nobody really knows who the “enemy” is, and it’s liable to change at any moment.