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  1. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    EROS AND THANATOS Beyond all this, the wish to be alone However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards However we follow the printed directions of sex However the family is photographed under the flagstaff- Beyond all this, the wish to be alone Beneath it all desire of oblivion runs Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death - Beneath it all desire of oblivion runs. • PHILIP LARKIN
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  2. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    Force," Simone Weil wrote, "is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."2
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  3. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.
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  4. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives become apparent."
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  5. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them,
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  6. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness.
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  7. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.
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  8. Chris Hedges _ War Is a Force that Gives Us

    The potency of myth is that it allows us to make sense of mayhem and violent death. It gives a justification to what is often nothing more than gross human cruelty and stupidity. It allows us to believe we have achieved our place in human society because of a long chain of heroic endeavors, rather than accept the sad reality that we stumble along a dimly lit corridor of disasters. It disguises our powerlessness.
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