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but its hard to play war with just one body guns get confused which way to point and divine forces are relied upon to justify paralysis.
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
With the last century marked by two world wars, the Soviet gulag, Mao's “Great Leap Forward,” Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and our present war on terrorism, we might ask, what is the generational accumulation of living in a metaphor of terror, and whether the psychological mechanisms by which we live or feel forced to live are mutating the race or changing human nature according to domination by terror. “Suffering is not the issue, nor is the number of victims. Human nature as such is at stake” (Arendt, 1976, p. 459).
Glover (2001) states:
The French Revolution guillotine and the republican baptisms— and the interest in the possibilities of gassing—all show how naturally inhumanity combines with technology.… Something needs to be done about this fatal combination….It is too late to stop the technology. It is on to the psychology that we should now turn. (p. 414)