Performative War, Climate Peacekeeping
Another from Neal Stephenson.
Page 515 'Now all that changes with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were basically performances. Deadly for real--obviously--but the point was the spectacle of it, and its psychological impact'
He'd been writing of the failure of Comanche performance war (and I think, of the ecoside of the bison, lying dead)
He goes on to write of 'shock and awe', 9/11 etc.
Love in King Jesus,
Chuck
PS; ERH held that American Social History was the re-integration of the veteran to peacetime society.
PPS: These are Holy Wars for the redeemed to wage for our maturity.
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