“All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.”

— Paul Virilio

Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 18

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