The Real Business
Richard Romeo
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 20:59:12 UTC 2022
You know that quote is trotted out so often it’s become rather meaningless in a world increasingly fraught with nationalistic death wishes
> On Feb 25, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> “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.”
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