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The Nature of the Sublime Victory, & How it is Eluding Israel in Gaza, Pt I
The pursuit of mythical art from war has become uncoupled from any incipient morality to descend into a genocidal morass of vengeful destruction that knows no end…
‘“The dead,” we are told, “went in their death from an imperfect reality to a perfect reality, from Germany in its temporal manifestation to the eternal Germany.” This Germany “in its temporal manifestation” is of course notorious, but the eternal Germany would really be in a bad way if we had depend on the testimony of those who so glibly invoke it. How cheaply they purchased their “solid feeling of immortality,” their certainty that the “terrors of the last war have been frightfully exaggerated,” and their symbolism of “blood boiling inwardly!” At best they fought the war they are celebrating here. However, we will not tolerate anyone who speaks of war, yet knows nothing but war. Radical in our own way, we will ask: where do you come from? And what do you know of peace? Did you ever encounter peace in a child, a tree, an animal, the way you encountered a patrol in the field? And without waiting for you to answer, we can say No! It is not that you would then not be able to celebrate war, more passionately than now, but to celebrate it in the way…
