Personally, comparative history has effected my life as the replay of a post-Vietnam like scenario has reeked havoc on my life since returning from my 2nd tour in Iraq. In order to propose a formal investigation into the returning veteran syndrome I have enlisted the support of the academic community to find investigative resources and staff to show the parallels between veterans of these two wars. Seeking out the data which would prove the difficulty of re- integrating veterans socially, spiritually and economically into the communities where they may have launched will clearly be facilitated in this limelight. Another comparative history episode in relative terms may be issued as a notary of the Max Headroom/Manchurian candidate series. Could it be that the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan was based on his funding of the ‘Star Wars’ movie franchise, some corporate takeover of the celestial heavens ? It may have been triggered in the would – be assassins’ mind (some brain – washing function of an embedded CIA unit) that Reagan – through Star Wars’ SDI [1] – would ruin the zodiac composition of the inner and outer celestium. When Matthew Crooks attended a recruitment event for the Space Forces at the high school gymnasium was his soda “bugged” by some intelligence agency to trigger the Trump – Pennsylvania assassination scandal. Again, this could be due to Trump’s ‘invention’ of the Space Forces, which similarly has made a major challenge of the Galileo house arrest “two worlds” scenario. Robert Mueller proficiently invoked a comparative study of the major civilizations in western history at the very dawn of the nuclear and modern era, warning that each of those civilizations - Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment – eventually collapsed under the weight of their own hubris [2]. Mueller invoked Aristotle’s concept of the ‘tragic flaw’, taken from his treatise On Poetry[3], in order to examine each of these deceased civilizations. Ultimately, Mueller understood that the tragic flaw of the modern world was it’s nuclear power and that it’s utility must be factored from the vast experience of human foibles. According to Skocpol and Somers there are three modes whereby the discipline of comparative history is implemented [4]. Each mode is used to illustrate different kinds of insights which occur to the historian and which, accordingly, help him/them/her to illustrate the causes and mechanisms of historical process. The discussion of Max Weber may be particularly helpful in sorting out the intricate role of otherwise meaningless burghers (as compared to Confucian China) in the Anglo-American empire which Weber depicts as the basis of modern capitalism, it's productivity , and it’s charm. Endnotes [1]. [2]. [3]. [4]. Theda Skocpol, Margaret Somers. ‘The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry,’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 22, no. 2, April (Harvard University, 1980) pp. 174-197.
