War is organized political mass murder. Once a politician kills and gets away with it, he will kill again. Political murder becomes a self-generating exercise in the game of politics. Politicians play with committing permissible crimes of murder. They become reliant on the usefulness of killing.
Killers with political power (often men with malignant resentment) maintain a “useful enemy.” A useful enemy can be domestic or foreign, or both. The language of politics gets used to identify human targets as military assets and too justify the politics of murder. Noncompliant and non-submissive opposition is labeled as unpatriotic, radical, subversive, less than human, terrorists, and expendable. Why? Because they are noncompliant. And the elements of justice and the humanity of oppositional resistance goes unheard and will not be tolerated.
The organized murder of war—a prevailing assertion in the will to power: excessive, authoritarian domination and abject subjugation—relies on normalizing intolerance and feeding emotions on the steroids of hatred.
Politicians who kill and get away with it, kill again. They use war. War is organized political mass murder. To justify and support aggressive war is to be complicit in crime. Crime and complicity in the atrocities of crimes against humanity eventually have consequences on social cohesion and moral conscience.
We continue to be traumatized/victimized by the history, and presence, of war. By militarized aggression and the propaganda of manipulation again a dehumanized “useful enemy.”
Waging war—paving the road to perdition—is the politics by which a nation becomes a terrorist state.
David Sparenberg is a humanitarian and eco poet, an international essayist and storyteller. He published four eBooks with OVI Books (Sweden) and the Word Press in 2025, the fourth of which was TROUBADOUR & the Earth on Fire. David will have a fifth OVI eBook, MANIFESTO: Ecology, Spirituality & Politics in a Higher Octave, published in early spring, 2026. David Sparenberg lives in Seattle, WA in the Pacific Northwest of the United States but identifies as an Ecotopian Citizen of Creation.
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