There is a sense in which... «The Scorpion Rules»
RamingoWS14 ноября 2017There is a sense in which war is nothing but ritual: the magical change of blood into gold or oil or water. There have been whole cultures whose notion of war was not much different from their notion of religion, or of sport. The Aztec Flower Wars, for example, were century-long rituals whose intent was to produce prisoners for religious sacrifice. When the Spanish came, they thought the Aztecs were savages because the Flower Wars had not resulted in wholesale death. An odd notion of savagery.
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