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We are all actors in a play whose script we didn't write, whose purpose we don't understand, whose ending has already been determined by forces beyond our comprehension. The only question remaining is whether we continue to play our assigned roles or find the courage to step outside the theater entirely.

But stepping outside requires first recognizing that we're inside—and that recognition, as our afternoon had demonstrated, may be the most difficult performance of all.

G.K. Chesterton

Beaconsfield, January 2025

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Everything that is damaged during bombing raids has already been paid for by the taxpayer, so it does no harm if something is occasionally destroyed and needs to be replaced. That's how you make money in the arms industry. Politicians are generous with other people's money.

Most of it was only produced on stockpile and for the military parade anyway. Because strikes and counter-strikes would make the missions absurd.

The only exception is when weapons are used against civilians who are not expected to retaliate. See the Gaza Strip.

There the bombs serve the purpose of a gigantic wrecking ball. And even the rubble will be used to make money, because in order to make the area colonizable later, gigantic amounts of rubble, contaminated with chemicals from the bombs and full of human remains, have to be excavated and transported away. Some companies will be paid handsomely for this, because no one can live on a terrain so contaminated with toxic residues. It is to be hoped that close attention will be paid to where the earth of Gaza is taken, and hopefully forensic experts will already be waiting there, because the aim here is to secure evidence of a gigantic crime.

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