[lit-ideas] Re: Virility and Slaughter
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:05:25 -0500
Richard wrote: "It is very painful to look at this astonishing episode
in history, to actually look at and contemplate what occurred."
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Yes, it is painful to contemplate, but . . .
Why isolate warfare as "profound psychopathology" when so many millions
were slaughtered in the various social utopian gulags of the 20th century?
I'll accept arguments for the astonishing stupidity of generals (on all
sides) who sent men over the top for years with the same result, but the
idea that they purposely slaughtered them to prove their patriotism is
just silly.
The even more horrible truth is that they slaughtered them because NO
ONE HAD A BETTER IDEA--until the German Auftragtaktik of the March 1918
Offensive, which itself had only limited success.
Eric Yost
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