“Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy” is point 9 from Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” essay. It goes together with point 11, where the idea of a permanent war is manifested as a cult of death. It’s short, and an excellent read.
The move is the first new Wonder Woman, staring Gal Gadot, where the plot is WWI, and follows her trying to kill Ares, God of War, who is responsible for the war. In the plot twist, Ares is revealed to be a diplomat working on an armistice, because (I am not making this up) “when you make peace, you can go to war again, so, really, negotiating peace is warmongering”, and apparently nobody stopped to think through the implication that we now see unfolding in Gaza.
It’s a constant thread I see ever more strongly in “the discourse”: there is no disagreement, there is no compromise, there is no negotiation with terrorists - you are either to destroy the enemy, or die trying. Well, have other people die for you, anyway.
I am.
“Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy” is point 9 from Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” essay. It goes together with point 11, where the idea of a permanent war is manifested as a cult of death. It’s short, and an excellent read.
The move is the first new Wonder Woman, staring Gal Gadot, where the plot is WWI, and follows her trying to kill Ares, God of War, who is responsible for the war. In the plot twist, Ares is revealed to be a diplomat working on an armistice, because (I am not making this up) “when you make peace, you can go to war again, so, really, negotiating peace is warmongering”, and apparently nobody stopped to think through the implication that we now see unfolding in Gaza.
It’s a constant thread I see ever more strongly in “the discourse”: there is no disagreement, there is no compromise, there is no negotiation with terrorists - you are either to destroy the enemy, or die trying. Well, have other people die for you, anyway.
This is the part that most people miss when they support wars in foreign lands.