• War critiques, on the other hand, are saying that it is all about money – that it is all about sustaining a hungry and greedy military-industrial complex.
• Well, both are wrong.
• It is all about a few men with great internal violence that has to be expressed -- and where else? if not in the human world of innocents. National interest, defense, terrorism, communism, external threat, religion, democracy, business interests, profit... these are reasons, rationalizations, excuses, to justify their violent and vindictive tendencies, their inhuman acts.
"Should your influence, then, reach an entire people, take great care to overcome your own contradiction so as not to poison with it the air that all others must breathe." --Silo, The Internal Landscape,•••
http://siloswords.blogspot.com/2009/03/silo-internal-landscape.html
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how I hate all this, how despicable and ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
“I do not know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -- Albert Einstein
http://www.aasa.org/publications/saarticledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=2529
WAR (from OHG. werra, quarrel). Open, armed conflict between tribes, clans, states, large social, religious, or ethnic groups; the strongest form of violence. There have been more than 2,500 wars recorded in world history, among them two world wars. In the First World War, more than 20 million people died; in the Second World War, more than 50 million. Wars are conducted to redistribute social goods by means of armed violence, seizing them from some human beings and delivering them to others. --Dictionary of New Humanism,
http://www.silo.net/referenceMaterials/Diccionario_en.rtf
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