Hermann Hesse,
Steppenwolf:
"Of course, there will be another war. One doesn't need to read the papers to know that. And of course one can be sad about it, but it isn't any use. It is just the same as when a man is sad to think that one day, in spite of his utmost efforts to prevent it, he will inevitably die. The war against death is always a beautiful, noble and wonderful and glorious thing, and so, it follows, is the war against war. But it is always hopeless and quixotic too... Your life will not be flat and dull even though you know that your war will never be victorious. It is far flatter to fight for something good and ideal and to know all the time that you are bound to attain it. Are ideals attainable? Do we live to abolish death? No--we live to fear it and then again to love it, and just for death's sake it is that our spark of life glows for an hour now and again so brightly."
Unfortunately,... (MORE)
...a big part of the "inevitability" invoked above comes from
YOU, the DailyKos well-intentioned liberal reader.
We talk daily here about those religious loonies, who welcome the end of the world. And about mis-directed mothers who send sons and daughters to war for the paternal State.
But they weren't going to stop nothing, were they? They remain un-persuadable, fatally addicted to their idolatry of State Power to aggrandize their tiny lives.
And, for them, War is as inevitable as the next SuperBowl coming around. You aren't going to teach them to start thinking -- in a day, or a week, or a lifetime.
No. It was up to YOU to do something about what you knew needed stopping. To "clog the machine with your whole weight," as someone once wrote.
Yes, YOU will pay for the last war and the next war and the Unitary President, until his brother is crowned the Imperator-for-Life and you will wonder about extending that next vacation to Sweden and will The Party let your aging mother join you after you ask asylum.
Could have all been prevented, so, so easily...
http://nwtrcc.org/
http://warresisters.org/...
OK -- back to work -- and back to enjoying Life!