¶ War: Official War and Unofficial War (1)
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"There are official wars and unofficial wars. There has never been anything approaching peace. The unofficial wars occur as billions of lives deteriorate prematurely and finally die for lack of vital necessities. They are deprived by economic warfare which is shrewdly and cruelly waged during the preposterously called ‘peacetimes’ as well as in anticipatory competition for access to the inadequate supplies or in hoarding against feared for scarcity.
“There are no medals given during unofficial warfare. The brotherly excitations occurring amongst each of the opponents’ respective peoples during official warfare are almost entirely lacking in unofficial warfare. Though much discomfort exists, the lowest death rate anywhere on Earth is now manifest in the direct combat deaths amongst official warfaring opposed fighting forces in Viet Nam. On the other hand, within the economic struggles and reflexive indulgences of the unofficial warfaring people on the North American continent. . . more lives have been lost in the automobile toing and froing witthin the last century than in the official warfaring of 100 percent of humanity in all history.”
