On Bomb Blasts, Brazilian Electricans, and Wars of Terror...

Scouring the news lately, it appears the world is becoming decidely more dangerous in places not often associated with violence. Hmm, something isn't working. I found some interesting quotes taken from AdBusters...

"Violence can bring about fundamental social change. Violence gets the public to pay attention. Violence tempts the enemy to react with cruelty, revealing their true character. Violence isn't a part of the kind of future we want. Violence plays into the hands of the enemy, who will use it to justify brutality. Violence is undemocratic and leaves no space for others."

"The seduction of war is insidious because so much of what we are told about it is true: it does create a feeling of comradeship, which obliterates our alienation and makes us, for perhaps the
only time in our life, feel we belong."

"War allows us to rise above our small station in life. We find nobility in a cause and feelings of selflessness and even bliss...War, for those who enter into combat, has a dark beauty, filled with the monstrous and grotesque...War gives us a distorted sense of self; it gives us meaning."

"Because we no longer understand war, we no longer understand that it can all go horribly wrong. We no longer understand that war begins by calling for the annihilation of others but ends, if we do know when to make or maintain peace, with self-annihilation. We flirt, given the potency of modern industrial weapons, with our destruction."

"For war in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soliders and politicians, and of idealists by cynics."