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| Does it matter to which country these bodies belong? As long as there are dead and mutilated bodies. The First World War was waged to prove the existence of countries. It is nearly impossible to imagine that such monumental death and destruction was waged in the name of no thing. The war must have been waged in the name of some thing. | ||||
From Paul H. Kahn, Sacred Violence “The battlefield is strewn with the disemboweled and beheaded, with severed limbs and broken bodies. All have died a terrible death in a display of sovereign power. Viewing the battlefield from a certain distance, it is not even clear who is the object of sacrifice: the enemy and the conscript suffer the same threat and burden of physical destruction for the sake of making present sovereign power.” |
