War Environment

Cain's children; Saturday June 20, 2009

In the Genesis story, Adam's son, Abel, was murdered young; his brother, Cain, his killer, lived to father children.

Mythically, we are the children of Cain and, "like father, like son", killers born.

Though we also, like gods, may change our inheritance.

(This notion is brought forward in John Steinbeck's story, East of Eden.)

War Environment

"War is an environment that will psychologically debilitate 98% of all who participate in it for any length of time and the 2% who are not driven insane by war appear to have already been insane, aggressive psychopaths before coming to the battle field."

On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Crossman


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