Rather than orbiting it now folds in halves until it is the size of a suitcase. It waits like the lonely traveler, out of his element anywhere and simply wanting to die along a good road.

A man or woman simply ignorant of history can't see anything but their own desires; the "stuff" of history itself. If that man or woman uses hisotry deliberately in order to break the habits of thought that bring nations to the verge of conflict isn't that a gauntlet thrown by thinking people by the fact of the inhuman hovering over them?

Naked, they highlight the terrible concantentation of events unforseen in history; a litany of mass murder, of waste, our legacy, this legacy that all the mass murder and waste can be organized and set into motion by relatively small groups of people. That is one of several gauntlets thrown at the feet of thinking people. A rational mind coming to terms with the thoroughly irrational will more likely trend toward the thoroughly irrational than convince the irrational to change its path. The rationalist merely asks, "are the weapons a sub-category of technology or are the dark side of the same manifestation? And who can evade the observation that a technology applied to solve one problem, further down the road creates its' own problems?

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