And with this knowledge it becomes increasingly difficult to embrace the thought of extinction purely for the assumed satisfaction of it from the grave, achieving revenge. Or even of accepting our demise as a planet as a simple and just preventative medicine administered to the Universe. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. I have no right to exist, except in the dirtiest, darkest corners of the globe. And we are not saved yet.
Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.
Under such circumstances, it must become more arrogant, more aggressive, more bloated with its own importance. In this civilized purpose and method, militarism, is sustained by the state, protected by the laws of the land, forstered by the home and the school, and glorified by public opinion. In others words, the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder. But the most iminant factor of miliary preparedness and the one which inevitably leads to war, is the creation of group interest which conscioulsy and deliberately work for the increase of armament whose purposes are furthered by creating the war hysteria.