There is a polarizing struggle with our internal
sense of the reaction that bursts through our
consciousness, a tug between pity and empathy
evoking our own prejudices unerringly patterned
by personal exposure linked to group identity.
The focus on reasonableness and not least
intelligence both abandoned when a people
submit their future and that of their offspring
to an authority that views them as puppets
whose strings can readily be manipulated in
deference to voices of compelling argument
that there is nobility in purposeful death
that can be a virtuous undertaking -- both that
of an enemy and the perpetrator of murder
reflecting the exalted nature of a struggle
against a purported enemy. Through the
eternal blueprint of survival where identity
and existence are paired with territorial envy
the antagonist's possessions flare into the
fire of greed and violence impelling leaders
to coerce their followers trapped in ethnic
national colours of their duty to embark on
a war whose prosecution results in fewer people
to contest a land mass of ancestral provenance
not their own. In the process celebrating
the conquest over the corpses of multitudes
the victims' and their own to satisfy whims
of tyrannical sadists and psychopaths.
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