The stories we inherit about war and history donβt just describe conflict; they compress it into forms we can carry. That simplification is partly necessaryβcommunication always trims reality to fit inside languageβbut it also steers us toward the kinds of situations those stories claim to explain. Myths of courage, sacrifice, and righteous struggle arise after […]
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Raise the stakes, escalate, brutalise and threaten war but never, ever actually start a full-scale unrestrained conflict. Nothing so certainly disassembles dictatorial regimes as a blind leap into armed conflict and imperialist aggression. Sure, none of us will ever miss any of these unrepentant misanthropes but how few of them ever learn from the historical […]
The “femme fatale”, a dangerous, panther-like beauty in which all of man’s desires and fears are realised in one gorgeous, dark and explosive bundle of alluring seduction and imminent volcano-like fury. This is the fantasy of woman upon which an unwitting, gullible and endlessly-amorous male identity anchors itself – in language, image, technology, culture and […]
Daedelus Kite 