“Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.”

— Karl Jaspers

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

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German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883–1969

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