Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.

hello, hope you’re all ok

Logging on to post about my travelers notebook. Loving the patina this thing has started taking on. Hard to see in photos but the leather is softening up so nicely.

I’m hearing multiple coworkers have lost their homes in the fires. Many had to evacuate. So sad