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War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary. It lies in human nature that deep emotion cannot be prolonged indefinitely, either in the individual or in a people, a fact that is known to all military organizations. Therefore it requires an artificial stimulation, a constant “doping” of excitement; and this whipping up was to be performed by the intellectuals, the poets, the writers and the journalists, scrupulously or otherwise, honestly or as a matter of professional routine. They were to beat the drums of hatred and beat them they did, until the ears of the unprejudiced hummed and their hearts quaked. In Germany, in France, in Italy, in Russia, and in Belgium, they all obediently served the war propaganda and thus the mass delusion and mass hatred, instead of fighting against it. The results were disastrous... Shakespeare was banned from the German stage, Mozart and Wagner from the French and English concert halls, German professors declared that Dante had been Germanic, the French that Beethoven had been a Belgian, intellectual culture was requisitioned without scruple from the enemy countries like grain and ore. It was not enough that thousands of peace-loving citizens were killing each other daily at the front. In the hinterland there was mutual berating and slandering of the great dead of the enemy countries, who had been slumbering in their graves for centuries. The mental confusion increased in absurdity... It soon became impossible to converse reasonably with anybody in the first war weeks of 1914.
I am an evolutionary biologist with interests in history, literature and philosophy. Darouet is taken from "d'Arouet:" François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) adopted the nom de plume Voltaire following his imprisonment in the Bastille in 1717.[1]
- ^ Davidson, Ian. Voltaire: A Life, pp.20-22. Profile Books, London: 2010.
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The Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for the article "Domestic Security Alliance Council" that you created! Gandydancer (talk) 17:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you for adding photographs to the Wikipedia articles about Iraqi journalists! Crtew (talk) 19:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC) |
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Awarded for your work at Talk:Right Sector. Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 13:13, 15 April 2014 (UTC) |
Kitten of Courtesy
For Talk:Right Sector
Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 13:16, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for keeping an eye on people trying rip out large chunks of well-sourced text from the US Involvement in Regime Change article. Please stay involved of you can NYCJosh (talk) 03:02, 16 October 2016 (UTC) |
The Barnstar of Diplomacy | |
Hi Darouet. Thank you for maintaining the highest standards for collaboration and collegiality. Kind regards. - MrX 13:40, 19 May 2017 (UTC) |
Keep up the good fight, Darouet! Although we've crossed paths a few times I hadn't realized that you've launched so many great articles! NYCJosh (talk) 20:02, 5 October 2017 (UTC) |
The Original Barnstar | |
Verifying the world, can't stop, won't stop GPRamirez5 (talk) 19:22, 18 October 2019 (UTC) |