unknownmisery:
Possibly true. But does another life open up?
oldernow:
--Tolstoy again-- summing up the War of 1812 (which was basically over the Ukraine, as was the Crimean War... which took 4 years before anyone realized it was really a war...) / The point is that reason and rules invariably destroy life and even the world they're meant to protect... as another man said (Merton), life creates structure, but structure never creates life... / reason is useful to better *observe* and learn from life; it is useless as a means of absolute governance...