It's like a game, isn't it? The opposition and rivalry…the struggle for power. Maybe the motives are pure, but the way everyone goes about it is childish. One group scores against the other, rubs their face in it, then they fall on their asses and it all starts again.

The games we played as kids were never that far removed from war. Chess, Battleship, Capture the Flag, so many of those games take on gravity because they're based on military conflict. Why doesn't it ever work the other way around, where we laugh at war and consider it childish because it resembles the games we played growing up?

I guess killing people is something we do in the grown-up world in order to grant our games a kind of puffed-up seriousness, to give them the illusion of meaning. Sacrificial payment.

Oh, David, I hope you're safe.