Michelle’s Reviews > One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This > Status Update

'And at every moment of arrival, the details and the body count may differ but in the marrow, there's always a commonality. An ambitious, upright, pragmatic voice saying: just for a moment, for the greater good, cease to believe that this particular group of people, for who's experience we are already so safely distanced, are human.'

'When next this happens, and it will happen, again and again, because the people remain under occupation and because the relative compeling powers of both revenge and consequence work beyond recognition, once one has been made to bury their child. The same framing can always be used: the barbarians instigate and the civilized are forced to respond.'