Yup... The beating of the drums of war has begun... We can hear their familiar ring echoing through the clustered city streets. The rulers are drawing their preparations and mobilizing the State. Soon, we will see the barrage of demonizing and dehumanizing rhetoric we have grown all too accustomed to. It's not long now until our "enemies" become the supposed "imminent threat" to our way of life that must be destroyed at all cost...

It's a shame none of it will change anything... War is not inevitable in absolute terms; but in our current paradigm, we are grown too accustomed to oppose it... I fear very authoritarian times are right around the corner...

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