WE NEED THE WAR

Our culture and way of life couldn’t exist without it.
Its victims are necessary for our Art,
and military technology is what feeds our scientific advancement.
The front has moved a few thousand kilometers further away.
Or maybe, the new foxholes are being dug in laws, work, or consumer society.
Some people insist that it’s inside of us from the time we’re born,
in our tastes, sexual competition, and our own uselessness.
Whether we are really the victims, with our addictions, apathy or well being,
or if the ones who are hurt the most are those masses of people we see on TV, is hard to say.
Figuring out whether it’s the democratic institutions, corporations,
the greed of our competition based system
or the human race itself that’s at fault is something far beyond our grasp.
What we can be sure of, however, is that we need war.
We need the natural resources it provides us,
the freedom we gain with it, the weapons, the threats, the epic movies
and those hordes of pacifists with their educational slogans.