Status Updates From O Mago

'War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death.'

'...this sinister elision, this slipping from true remorse, the belief that the suffering we have precipitated ought to ennoble us, or at least make us less ignoble from then on, to disguised self-forgiveness, the belief that suffering somehow ennobles life, so that pain comes, by such a cockeyed algebra, to equal the ennoblement, or at any rate the enrichment of life...'