Rufus T. Firefly scuttling center stage to make his pronouncement…. There's always a hidden glee behind the crowd's reaction. "Before, I had to hold it together. Now? I can let go. A free pass. No resort is too extreme. We're at war." The next stage is the rush to, "Get in the fight!" After all, "It'll be over by Christmas." It's just that close. This edge of precipice. Clausewitz was right. "War IS diplomacy carried out by other means." War and business-as-usual are points on a continuum. And not particularly far apart. "How can that be? War is war and Peace is Peace!" It may seem like peace to us, where we are, in a place where the violence is well-hidden. But these privileges traveling down the pipeline are the result of widespread violence on an industrial scale. War is war, but so is what we call peace today. The Neo-libs have that much right. This is endless war, endless terror. But it's not a bug. It's a feature. And sometimes it breaks through the curtain and cannot be denied. What do we do? Find a way to deny it. Not in so many words. We do not say "This isn't happening." We say, "This is War!" This is an act of Will. In the face of reality impinging on our comforts we resort to insisting that reality is unacceptable and, "The gloves are off! No more Mr. Nice-guy!" We take charge. Taking charge, assuming
This Means War!
This Means War!
This Means War!
Rufus T. Firefly scuttling center stage to make his pronouncement…. There's always a hidden glee behind the crowd's reaction. "Before, I had to hold it together. Now? I can let go. A free pass. No resort is too extreme. We're at war." The next stage is the rush to, "Get in the fight!" After all, "It'll be over by Christmas." It's just that close. This edge of precipice. Clausewitz was right. "War IS diplomacy carried out by other means." War and business-as-usual are points on a continuum. And not particularly far apart. "How can that be? War is war and Peace is Peace!" It may seem like peace to us, where we are, in a place where the violence is well-hidden. But these privileges traveling down the pipeline are the result of widespread violence on an industrial scale. War is war, but so is what we call peace today. The Neo-libs have that much right. This is endless war, endless terror. But it's not a bug. It's a feature. And sometimes it breaks through the curtain and cannot be denied. What do we do? Find a way to deny it. Not in so many words. We do not say "This isn't happening." We say, "This is War!" This is an act of Will. In the face of reality impinging on our comforts we resort to insisting that reality is unacceptable and, "The gloves are off! No more Mr. Nice-guy!" We take charge. Taking charge, assuming