Thursday, 8 May 2025

BROTHERS IN ARMS

 The attack, while seeming to come from nowhere was however a symptom of a long-standing conflict between 'brothers' who have coexisted for a very, very long time.

No, we're not talking of the India/Pakistan conflict of neighbouring countries who have a shared history but also unresolved conflicts. The conflict between India and Pakistan arose out of the 1947 Partition of British India which established a Muslim-majority Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India and provided the diverse regions of Jammu and Kashmir the opportunity to choose which country to accede to.

We're talking of the musical differences between old brothers Richard and Robert that surface from time to time regularly enough to imagine a simmering between the surface not unlike Yellowstone and Taupo calderas that threaten to erupt.

The latest rumbling in the Richard/Robert conflict arose in a comment on one of my posts where Robert, unbidden, wrote:


Like a seismological scientist I immediately recognised the danger and responded:


Sure enough, immediately after Richard posted a comment ...


... and the next day wrote a post where he said:



Meanwhile Robert deleted his link to Richard's blog and wrote this comment on my post where all the trouble started:



Who said that blogging is boring?