An interesting quote for Remembrance Day:
"The law of the state is that to save the state even the innocent must be sacrificed....
the death of a single man is an event more important and more tragic than the death of a state or an empire."
Nicholas BERDYAEV. 1946.
Quoted in "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism" by Peter Marshall.
http://www.petermarshall.net/
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Like so many I tend towards the view that World War One was a tragic waste - that all sides were rapacious empires and that it was an immoral war - but that in contrast World War Two was possibly necessary.
[Bertrand Russell, for example, went to prison for his opposition to World War One, but later came to support World War Two because of the nature of the enemy....]
However, it is perhaps not entirely mistaken to regard the years from 1918-1939 as merely a pause in the fighting, as a French thinker asserted. (Must find the quote).
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I am opposed to the idea that music or any art form is an "industry".
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