📚 | Thoroughly recommend James Cameron’s 1967 book ‘Point of Departure’, a masterful and often self-deprecating memoir featuring accounts from his two decades as a foreign correspondent. Interestingly, many of Cameron’s observations are as relevant today as they were in 1967. 
⭕ "Two world wars within my lifetime, and a multiplicity of lesser ones, have anaesthetised our moral perceptions, and somehow produced the illusion that there can be a justification for killing millions in places like Dresden, Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and a hundred places more.”
⭕ “I am obliged to say that I personally feel that nothing justifies it - neither Communism, Fascism, nationalism, tyranny nor freedom; the conquest of the earth or the preservation of any way of life: nothing.”
⭕ “Nothing in the world, however base nor however good, nor however theoretically admirable, can justify murder as an act of policy.”
⭕ “This is an argument hardly likely to be accepted in a society where even the professional priests bless the machinery of death in the name of Christ and anointed clergymen officiate at the launching of nuclear submarines.”
⭕ “It will obviously be unpersuasive in a country that spends on its soldiers and their weapons in outmoded and improbable outposts more than a hundred times what it spends on the United Nations and its agencies.”
⭕ “It is clearly, therefore, a point of view without political importance to anyone except myself.”
⭕ “I saw Adolf Eichmann tried and condemned in Jerusalem: a palliative thrown to the well-intentioned wolves in a world still liberally inhabited by Eichmanns; just as obedient, just as glib, just as simple, just as horrible...
⭕ “...just as persuaded of the importance of their public function in the society that employs them, just as assimilated in our way of life - committed at the controls of Polaris vessels and V-bombers...
⭕ “...to obey the anonymous programmed command to deal more death in a second than the wretched and intolerable Eichmann did in four years. Mostly good family men, I understand.”
