War is the final divorce of humanity from reason and the spiritual aspirations of our highest ambitions.
War is the final three count of the human animal over the human spirit.
War is the moment of inception when the worms of hell finally burrow into the holy of holies in the human heart and begin to divide and replicate.
And war is totally necessary in the social evolution of mankind.
War is the agent of change–the white blood cells of society moving to attack the diseases which threaten to hinder our forward progress.
War serves an absolute and justified purpose but as with everything absolute; war has a beginning, an ending and a limit to its usefulness.
Greatness of human achievement is most visible in the act of war but it remains the greatness of the human animal engaged in teeth sneering murder to secure health, wealth, progeny and ideological lebensraum.
White blood cells die off once they complete their cleansing the blood of foreign and harmful particles as must the act of war once an equilibrium has been reached and the boundaries of future progress secured enough so that we may steer our ship of specie between the jagged rocks of time, decay and mortality.
The Cosmopolitan Citizen is the one whose paradigm surpasses the petty chains of nationalism and the superstitious metaphoric idol worship known as religion. The Cosmopolitan citizen is the one who thinks, not only in terms of their entire species or within the limited scope of all life on this planet but one who thinks in the absolute terms of existence itself. He or she feels themselves undulating in the peristalsis of life in the moment without tether to the ephemeral string of moments which came before or the rumor of the moment which is promised to come after this one.
We as Cosmopolitan citizens are imbued by destiny to define the scope of what an equilibrium with each other and the planet we inhabit both looks and feels like in every possible aspect, not just political and economic. We must deeply feel the interconnected web of all things and learn the beginnings and ends of each facet of our existence so that we may use the tool of war to its most effective end and put the tool away when that end becomes detrimental to the forward progression of our species.
The first step toward freedom is the only step in the process of true transformation and it can only take place within each individual’s mind; anything beyond that is somebody trying to sell you something.
Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. …Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
–Hermann Göring, Leading member of the Nazi Party, Second in command of the Third Reich, and Commander of the Luftwaffe–
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