Shure, but psychology plays a role in those wars as well. The
psychologty of terror. Of permanent war without end. Interests and
drones everywhere. See also the psychology of the renaming of the Westbank
Syria is a very good example as well. Are there freedom lovers against a
bloody dictator or
Silly Keith, don't you get it? Guns -- a proxy for all PHYSICAL
aggression -- are just *props* in the theater of warfare. Sure,
they work in the sense of actually destroying human bodies and
the fear of them has actual, empirical consequences; but from a
HISTORICAL perspective, we're all dead in
This is the psychology of global capital. It is the psychology of the
spectacle. Its not clear the concerns you mention are primary for people in
Damascus whose families are being bombed, raped, shot, and mutilated, or for
the various liberation armies throughout sub-Saharan Africa who are
Sorry, guns are in very high fashion. Go to Syria, Afghanistan, Waziristan…
this war as solely the war on desire is one of the root misapprehensions of
high capitalism, perhaps a product of that very propaganda. Not that it doesn't
supplement the wars fought with guns. But Industry didn't