Specific people and their behavior are responsible for the implementation of one of the most beautiful and eternal human dream, the dream of peace. These people and the ideas that tell people to fight should be mentioned.
An piece written with a little help of Bob Dylan. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtazs3_bob-dylan-masters-of-war-graphic_creation#.UUGV0zfILp8
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
One of the main arguments of each warrior is a need to defend something. We defend ourselves against all sorts of enemies. We defend different imaginations of self, because everyone has a different understanding of own identity. Each war is a war of two sides defending something. Aggressor also defends something; he is a defender of some idea. We are involved in the defense, whether we want it or not. Masters of War already took care of it ...
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.
The state of war is, for some individuals, the only way to reflect on the transience of all things and to contemplate their own mortality. It is an empirical study of Camaldolese tip: “memento mori”. Some researchers, such as the kamikaze and other holy martyrs of independence, social justice or the opportunity to live in harmony with their religious principles, carry out their research in the form of vivisection and die in the course of an experiment. What differs such an experimenter from the individual suicide is participation in the experiment smaller or larger number of randomly selected lives.
Shahid’s attitude qualifies the warrior for the role of the unfulfilled researcher. His research ends, but conclusions from an experiment are drawn by others. Real Masters of War control the meditation on death from the distance, and only a few can experience sensory effects of their actions (such as mustard gas inventor, who had an opportunity to stroll over the field covered by several thousand Russian soldiers writhing in painful agony).
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe.
Creating a world of threats helps to mobilise the cannon fodder. The lies, describing the barbarism of the enemy and nobelty of our boys carrying the torch of education along with their guns, are employed to prevent the idea of ??peace into the minds of people leading or joining a war.
To make killing easier, the war propaganda is full of the promises of war booty, the wealth that will be the reward for victory. The myth of noble knights, the Hague and Geneva Conventions makes it easier to become a murderer.
The best camouflage for murderous instincts is an argument about the symbols. The more ambiguous is a symbol - the better for a war ...
You hide in your mansion'
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud..
The war is just a continuation of Masters of War policies. The miracles of technology and genius of logistics projects result in a pile of decaying protein at various war cemeteries.
Little flags moved around the maps of strategic planners, complex computer simulations become a hole in the liver, howl, death, disability, PTSD ...
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
Wars makes caring for offspring difficult. However, their impact on fertility is not as clear-cut as the poet described it. Selfishness of genes causes, very frequently, that fertility of the communities threatened with extermination is much larger than the communities living in peace. Quantitative strategy of survival is often the only strategy for these communities.
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do.
I happened one Easter, that Christ didn’t ressurect. He didn’t feel like it. He was fed up with taking away the sins of the world. Tired and bored with healing, teaching and consoling. He stopped to forgive and he disappeared.
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
For a certain type of mentality, material wealth is an assurance of security. One can pay for the best doctors and the best hospitals, the most expensive medicines and new organs for transplantation. Alternatively, one can erect a monument or a pyramid to extend in stone own temporal existence …
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
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