This is like watching a slow motion train wreck. Except there's no physical momentum involved. It can be stopped simply by stopping it.

Yet it lumbers on toward disaster.

@mattblaze "I've led a soldier's life, and I've never seen anything as brutally clear as this. It's as if I can actually see the blue troops in one long, bloody moment, goin' up the long slope to the stony top. As if it were already done... already a memory. An odd... set... stony quality to it. As if tomorrow has already happened and there's nothin' you can do about it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOgQqFqL5y8

Gettysburg - General Buford

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