It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, Money be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake, but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my nights blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms it was only staged to look that way but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite
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Themes
- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war