AFTER VIOLENCE: 3R, RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION ...

probably as old as war; the frequent mention in reports these
years is also due to the recent rise of feminism.
The right hand column is, however, far from trivial.
Nature: one thing is damage to the eco-system and eco-
deterioration; another is reinforcement of the general cultural
code of Herrschaft over nature, also a part of the rape syndrome.
Countless millions watch on TV not only people killed and wounded
but also nature destroyed, poisoned, going up in flames. The war
is legitimated. The damage may be deplored, not the legitimation.
Most damaging is the use of ABC-weapons, capable of also wreaking
genetic havoc. But old-fashioned kinetic and incendiary military
insults to nature, when done on a large scale (including peacetime
maneuvers) can make civilian insults look innocent./14/ Like
mega-violence to humans, e.g., Auschwitz and Hiroshima-Nagasaki,
mega-violence to nature makes lower, "conventional", levels of
violence look almost innocent.
Human: The number of people bereaved through warfare is
unknown. A modern 2,3-generation family means the order of 101;
counting other primary groups (friends, neighbors, colleagues) we
come closer to the order of 102. We can safely multiply the
number killed during a war by 10, as a low estimate. Added to
that comes second order bereavement, knowing somebody bereaved:
the condolences, the sharing in the sorrow, bringing us to 103.
Then comes the tertiary order, general national bereavement, as in
general when catastrophe strikes, natural or social.
As Erasmus Rotterdamus said long time ago: S ss scheint der
Krieg nur dem Unerfahrenen,/15/ an important point against the
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