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Old books
having a bit of a clearout, and I came across a box of books. they had
been packed away around 1980,prior to moving from our first
home,the books were kept for various reasons,something that the kids
bought for us,a present from someone something we might
want to read again someday.
One book, Proteus by Morris West (pub 1979) I was damned if I could
remember why I' d saved that book,so I flitted through it,and saw that
I had marked out a few passages.
here's one of them.
" violence,we are told, is an irrational act,an animal response. this
is only true in the most limited context,the crime of passion for
instance ,the beer hall affray, the brawl at a football match....
I invite you, my friends to consider a much more sinister
proposition: that violence , cruelty and murder are completely rational
acts devised as deliberately as a theatre piece, to further the aims -
political, financial or personal- of those who perpetrate them"
there's a bit about terrorist actions ,and then this
But terrorists have no monopoly of this brutal game, governments play
it too-and on a much grander scale. The consentration camps, the
detention centres the torture -rooms, are all contrived, rationally and
scientifically ,as an apperatus of oppression,to stifle dissent and
strike fear intothe mass of the people who have no recourse against the
tyranny.
Ah now I remember why I saved the book.
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