The Other Side of the Coin

War offers a glimpse of something transcendent, for all its ugliness. For a brief instant, walton had seen men touch upon glory. This can be seen in much great literature, shakespeare's henry the fifth comes to mind. And this glory that is possible in war, though certainly not on behalf of our current globo homo rulers,. which is a foolish waste. All this said, fighting cannot be permitted to become an end in itself that tears a society apart. The role of civilization, and especially of the women in that civilization, is to channel this impulse to productive and useful ends.