There is a war now which no one wants to fight, in which no one can see a gain – a zombie war of sleep-walkers which nevertheless goes on out of all control of intelligence. Some time ago a Congress of honest men refused an appropriation of several hundreds of millions of dollars to feed our people. They said, and meant it, that the economic structure of the country would collapse under the pressure of such an expendature. And now the same men, just as honestly, are devoting many billions to manufacture, transportation, and detonation of explosives to protect the people they would not feed. And it must go on.
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, March 1940
Note: This was written before Pearl Harbor (and neo-Conservatives and Democratic Capitalists). But here we are in the exact same place! Is that why he wrote “And it must go on”?
Calpurnia Republic 