GRGR(32): Tchitcherine, Wimpe, Marxism, and you

Jeremy Osner jeremy at xyris.com
Mon Jul 24 14:03:13 CDT 2000


one million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning wrote:

> Maybe this points to another System thing: the System, in general,
> kills people slowly, not in the way that soldiers die. So the War
> is used as a justification for death-for-History because its soldiers
> have greater insight into the nature of death - which is supposed to
> carry over to this slow death-by-System to which all, including non-
> soldiers, are subjected.

Geez, you mean "The System persuades soldiers to die by promising them a greater
insight into death"?




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