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February 1, 2015

Learning to Hate

The pursuit of that holy grail, the negotiated settlement continues apace.

There are no more knockouts in international relations; just a bare-knuckle eye-gouging brawl that go on for 100 rounds, with the man behind on points revived by speed and dextrose so that he can answer the bell. This is the humanitarianized conflict of today. In the process, however, the stop-and-go fighting preferred by the elites builds up a huge head of primal hatred, which like a pustule that cannot be lanced creates an unreasoning yet understandable desire for revenge. This is what we see in Jordan’s threat. The balm of hashtags and candles finally fails lose their potency only to be replaced an almost desperate desire to end the conflict, whatever the cost, however great the brutality. The idea of an eternal stalemate, so beloved by lawyers, becomes unbearable to the public until it unleashes an unstoppable monster that neither lawyers nor journalists can control.
| Belmont Club

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 1, 2015 8:19 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Whoever wrote that needs to bone up on analogies and metaphors.

Posted by: BillH [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 1, 2015 2:35 PM

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