plain-as-day

Updated: May 19, 2025

Instead, everybody lost as the entire social structure was wrenched, dislocated, wracked and down-graded. Certainly this seemed to be the plain-as-day lesson of the two general wars and the flurry of minor wars which swept the earth after 1910. Expansion through armed struggle no longer paid its way. It was the theme of Norman Angel's Great Illusion.

Scott Nearing - Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History