War is when people turn their love of a country or an idea into a hatred for people who just happen to live somewhere else or think differently from ourselves. And the more intensely we feel the former, the easier it is for us to butcher the latter.
It's when those in power so succeed at convincing us that they are the only reason we are "free" and a "great nation," that when they tell us to go to war, we rush off with "faith" and conviction to butcher each other to death in the meat grinder of one battlefield or another.
And we do it, without question! We do it out of love of country and family, which are the very same reasons our enemies are all rushing to meet us, near and far, and with just as much enthusiasm as ourselves.
And they do this, by convincing us that the more we help to increase their wealth and power over us, the happier and "freer" we will become, because their good fortunes will "trickle down" to us, like the crumbs that fell from the Rich Man's table, like manna from heaven for Lazarus.
It's when those in power so succeed at convincing us that they are the only reason we are "free" and a "great nation," that when they tell us to go to war, we rush off with "faith" and conviction to butcher each other to death in the meat grinder of one battlefield or another.
And we do it, without question! We do it out of love of country and family, which are the very same reasons our enemies are all rushing to meet us, near and far, and with just as much enthusiasm as ourselves.
And they do this, by convincing us that the more we help to increase their wealth and power over us, the happier and "freer" we will become, because their good fortunes will "trickle down" to us, like the crumbs that fell from the Rich Man's table, like manna from heaven for Lazarus.
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