Deadpool's History of War

A Story by Abishai100

The eccentric American vigilante Deadpool (Wade Wilson) offers an account of the endurance of man's wars, a presentation of basic divinity.

A 9/11-homage Deadpool inspired vignette about the resilience of human life and civilization itself. Enjoy,

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Do you know why they call me Deadpool? I'm a masked deformed and sometimes depressed vigilante in the United States, and I use trusty guns-and-swords to take down real criminal rings of hell in the modern city. I've worked in places as varied as Moscow, Philadelphia, and Paris. Now, I'm taking some personal time to take account of the 'history of war' as seen/experience through the eyes/hearts of civilization or mankind. Join me on this journey, as I share with you my own vision of human endurance.

"Man started out as 'cave-men' using spears and torches of fire to hunt animals and cook them up for meats/foods. They then turned on each other and started using weapons to create power-realms and 'kingdoms' of blood...and the rest is history as we say, right?"

"Now, Rome was a terrific if damned Empire. It was filled with stories of doomed gladiators and grape-eating Caesars and their mistresses and/or slaves. There were great wars waged by and for Rome and some challenges, especially Hannibal of Carthage contributed, like Jesus, to its eventual downfall."

"We flash-forward to the ugly 20th Century, marked by two World Wars, and the second one was everyone's favorite, since it included the Nazi Holocaust of countless Jewish people who'd settled in Germany ('Germania'?) as merchants and tax-collectors. Something inside the sprawled out and frustrated German peoples simply snapped, and they turned on these wandering Jews, the chosen of God, and forced them into death-camps, prompting an entire group of Allied Nations to wage war against the criminally-insane Adolf Hitler in the hope of freeing the trapped and tortured and executed Jews facing ethnic extermination. That's a story for comic books."

"World War II culminated in battles waged by America against the nation/empire of Japan. We dropped two whopping nuclear-bombs on two Japanese cities, yielding an incredible human casualty-count so the Japanese would simply cease their offensive advances in favor of Nazi Germany. This was a horrible history experience and no one likes remembering this incident/lesson in high-school history-class."

"Then there's Bloody Sunday in the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland). Catholics lived in Belfast as an Irish minority, under a British Protestant majority population settled/descended from generations of colonial settlers from England. While mainland Catholic Ireland was a Republic of its own, its neighboring Northern Ireland area was inhabited by a British Protestant majority and hence remained part of British control. Frustrations led to the formation of the Irish Republican Army's varied factions, culminating in the violence seen on the historic day in the United Kingdom known as Bloody Sunday. This is a 'guerrilla war' which has driven Catholics and Protestants apart. How far we've come from the days of cave-men, eh?"

"Then, there's the new era story of the 'daily war' waged over the imagination. These 'pedestrian' or 'folk wars' occur in the streets of America and involve color-gangs, bank-robbers, and of course the 1992 LA Race Riots. These 'folk wars' are really about the daily anarchy of mismanaged civilization or overrun angst buried in the hearts and beautiful minds of everyday people. Maybe this kind of war is never meant to really end!"

"Now, 9/11, for which we approach the 20th-anniversary year in 2021, showed us that not everyone's a fan of America as Big Brother to the world/civilization. Anti-Western terrorists crashed two hijacked passenger airplanes into the commerce-iconic World Trade Center (NYC) and reminded everyone of the tensions between the West and the Middle East, and during incidents like the Afghanistan War, the Gulf War, and the Iranian Revolution. America was once again at the heart of a deadly game. People remembered Pearl Harbor on 9/11, which is perfectly sane!"

"So what do these wars really tell us about the nature of human civilization and sanity itself? What makes men 'snap' and turn on each other rather than seeking legal/civil procedures for grievance attention and journalism and good old fashioned online chats? If wars never end, what will the Earth look like, say, in the year 3000? Will we still be 'haunted' by the magic of blue flowers reminding us of the timeless charm of heavenly superstitions? Will man endure...itself?"

I think of the burning of the Notre Dame cathedral as an awful moment in world history not connected to any war but really reminiscent/reflective of man's endless tribulations and trials and exposure to calamity that compels us to evaluate/measure the density of organic life on Planet Earth. I wonder what aliens from Mars, if they do exist that is, made of this awful tragedy, of the burning of the Notre Dame cathedral in France. Shouldn't we protect such monuments to immortality?