The war machine is a ravenous, fearsome & terrifying monster, but it is supported by an equally powerful & pervasive fear machine, without which the war machine could not exist in its present form.
William Faulkner, in his Nobel speech (1950) nailed it: “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.“
The war machine is a ravenous, fearsome & terrifying monster, but it is supported by an equally powerful & pervasive fear machine, without which the war machine could not exist in its present form.
William Faulkner, in his Nobel speech (1950) nailed it: “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.“
Marvelous!