The myth of Armageddon,
the last battle ever to be fought
in which the victor
rules forever,
is a template for understanding
how human societies gin themselves up
to fight the other side to the death.
If someone kills enough of your group
your group will start feeling like it is time for us to kill also.
This is one way to propagate war.
Then we kill till we can’t do it any longer.
We bury the dead. Honor those who fought for us,
demean and demote those who did not.
Lather rinse repeat throughout which time periods in human history
among which groups?
Armageddon is simply the name for our tendency to do the things mentioned above and the devastating effects wrought on civilization and
planet Earth, blue among the Stars
during and afterwards.
You see
we are always fighting,
just not to the death
for awhile.
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