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

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Mon Jul 24 16:08:12 CDT 2000



On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> 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"?
> 

There are insights and there are insights. The Beatific Vision or Heaven
on Earth for future humanity.

Think I'll join the National Guard.

			P.




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