Ideas that have become blood demand blood. War is the eternal pattern of higher human existence, and countries exist for war’s sake; they are signs of readiness for war. And even if a tired and blood-drained humanity desired to do away with war,
like the citizens of the Classical world during its final centuries, like the Indians and Chinese of today, it would merely exchange its role of war-wager for that of the object about and with which others would wage war. Even if a Faustian universal harmony could be attained,
masterful types on the order of late Roman, late Chinese, or late Egyptian Caesars would battle each other for this Empire–for the possession of it, if its final form were capitalistic; or for the highest rank in it, if it should become socialistic. #Spengler
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