- The army's a sort of parodied version of civil society - without all the face-saving rituals and without all the social excuses and just the naked barbarism - an amalgam of sentimental sloppy reverence for dead idols, combined with a real viciousness. I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
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