10-25-2022, 09:36 PM
In primitive societies, the successful berserker or its equivalent tended to bring back the greatest prize that a hunter-gatherer society had: its prettiest daughters. There was little treasure, as just about everything material tended to rot in the heat and humidity or decay into dust. We are no longer there. OK, many American soldiers returned from Japan with wives, but that looks like a very equable situation.
The tools of modern war are simply too horrible for the conscience of good people. Much of the support for the Second Gulf War was the allegation that Saddam Hussein still had horror weapons. Some of this is to be expected because of the genocide that "Satan Hussein" had done in the past and part was failure to understand the reality.
The tools of modern war are simply too horrible for the conscience of good people. Much of the support for the Second Gulf War was the allegation that Saddam Hussein still had horror weapons. Some of this is to be expected because of the genocide that "Satan Hussein" had done in the past and part was failure to understand the reality.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.