What this psychic illness teaches is that the West does not really want disarmament with its conciliation and accommodation — it wants rather the process of inducing-and-rejecting and reinducing-and-rerejecting that disarmament and conciliation in the enemy along in order to enjoy the unending process itself and raising it to Transcendence until the Other disappears, while being careful to avoid the fulfillment, disarmament and conciliation come into its own and established in actual fact (except in lip-service pretence for the public's benefit) lest that end the inducing-and-rejecting process.

Beth has the mushroom gardenburger.

My wi-fi got disconnected.

Indeed, I thought it seemed like a waste of time and intelligence even to speak of this war as rational activity, as a Clausewitzian continuation of politics by other means.