Losing Game or Trojan Horse? War as a Suppression Tool, 4
When I dedicated this work to you I pointed out how a safe environment is one where your fellows agree that your loved ones have the right to live, that they are entitled to exist, survive, and now we can extend that remark to say that a safe environment is one where your fellows agree that you and your loved ones have the right to exist and survive through the acknowledgement that your belongings belong to you, too. Acting to the effect that your home isn’t yours anymore, for instance, is a rather explicit way to inform you that your existence isn’t very welcome, isn’t it? Thereafter, when you become a refugee, your life, your future, and the meagre possessions that you managed to save and now hold in your uncertain and desperate grasp, none of this thing is safe and each could be ripped from you hands at any moment.
But the point here is that under such conditions, prices of assets are affected, too. When people is suppressed to the level of bare survival, to food and shelter now, and hopefully tomorrow, too, the family jewels are sold out for a piece of bread or a pass, priceless woodwork is burnt to keep warm one more day, the rest of the building is abandoned, just outside one’s shelter no man’s land begins, and where hunger and bombs will not work, the apathy of despair will. Not to mention as well how wartime is perfect pretext for any surviving government to shrink freedom, which doesn’t hurt, isn’t it?
A destroyed populace shrinks its field of vision and reach, thus anything outside its bare survival almost vanishes. And the level of torturers isn’t much higher than that of their victims: just like thieves destroy the value of what they steal, so torturers will sell out their loot for a fraction of its value.
To whom? Well, who was so kind to inform us of when it is the best time to buy?
And… do you think this type of individuals merely sits and waits that blood falls from the trees like ripe fruit?
Look, don’t think, it has been said.