Keeping the broader and bigger war in mind and not losing sight of it in order to become “captive” to the frenzied passion and hysteria of the blob as well as captive to the dim hope that one may have “for the sake of a fine experience” was best explained by Heraclitus, who said: “War is the father of all and the king of all, it proves some people gods, and some people men; it makes some people slaves and some people free.”
In a sense, to have fate compel one to analyze and study war given that we are not done with war yet enables one to excel rather than stagnate and in turn enables one to feel liberated rather than have one feel as though there is no choice but to espouse the slavishness that would otherwise put us into a predicament.
Adam A. Azim 