The Real Business

[Erik T. Burns]

“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering
and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as
spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw
material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught
History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared
for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulus to just ordinary
folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're
still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”