The world economy ensures there are no weapons at all. A man signs up for his country’s army. He gets to training camp. The sergeant hands him a piece of wood shaped like a rifle, with a rubber bayonet on the end.
“Right, men! This is the new war tactics. You point your rifle at the enemy and say ‘bangety bang’! You poke your bayonet at the enemy and say ‘stabbity stab’”! The soldiers look at each other and shrug – WTH?
Days later, the men are sent to a battlefield. The enemy is massed on the other side – they too have wooden rifles with rubber bayonets. They start walking towards each other. The lines meet – the soldiers start pretend shooting and bayoneting. The words ‘bangety bang and stabbity stab’ ring out. Amazingly, men on both sides die in their thousands!!
Finally, amidst the corpses, our hero stands, stunned by all this. Suddenly, he sees a single unarmed enemy soldier walking slowly towards him across the bodies. As he gets close to him, the soldier uses his weapon – ‘bangety bang, stabbity stab’.
Nothing happens!!
The enemy soldier simply knocks over our hero, and walks slowly over him.
The hero hears the enemy muttering…
‘Tankety tank… tankety tank’.
