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Preface
“Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked,
and we, who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
”
– Omar N.
Bradley
Once upon a time there lived a demon that had a peculiar diet: he fed on the anger of
others....
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1
Preface
“Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked,
and we, who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
”
– Omar N.
Bradley
Once upon a time there lived a demon that had a peculiar diet: he fed on the anger of
others.
And, as his feeding ground was the human world, there was no lack of food for
him.
He found it quite easy to provoke a family quarrel, or national and racial hatred.
Even to stir up a war was not very difficult for him.
And whenever he succeeded in
causing a war, he could properly gorge himself without much further effort; because once
a war started, hate multiplied by its own momentum and affected even normally friendly
people.
So the demon s food supply became so rich that he sometimes had to restrain himself
from over-eating, being content with nibbling just a small piece of resentment found
close-by.
Followers of Buddha often tell this ancient allegoric story, that it might somehow help
explain man’s inhumanity to man.
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