Politics is the art of government.
In this age of worldwide arms manufacture
military rule, representative democracy
and oligarchy are the basic forms of that art-
and each form props up and collapses the other.
Modern representative democracies support themselves
by exporting arms to wholly militarised societies,
and insists to their own, less run-by-the-gun civil society
that they don't need such militarism whilst omitting
to say 'But we do need to export military hardware
to undemocracies to create the balance of payments
that supports you'. There was a satire about inequality
called 'Eat the rich', the best retort to which was to erase
the first word and write 'vomit' instead. How are we
going to vomit up the will to manufacture and export arms
from our gut to support a genuinely peace based civiliation?
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