From a Capitalist Point of View

From a capitalist point of view, they are right, not me. Every opportunity to make money must be used. Otherwise, you lose.

That’s for me, this forced mobilization, street hunting for men is a crime and a barbarity. But for those who do it, it’s a job.

Those who are caught pay the ones who caught them. They pay not to go to war. The state allows it.

So it works. It makes money. I look at it and get only one thought:

I don’t want to adapt to this.

What angers me isn’t even what’s happening. It’s the language used to describe it.

Politicians say: “Men are going to war voluntarily.” They say this on international stages.

I’m losing faith in humanity not because politicians lie, but because those who were supposed to represent a better future believe those lies.

And again I run into the same thought:

I don’t want to adapt to this.

My friend was afraid of a third world war and flew to Argentina.

Latin America welcomed him with two robberies.

The second time, they made him take off his underwear to check if he was hiding anything valuable.

Here’s the choice: petty violence every day or a large-scale war as a possibility.

After returning to Europe, my friend says that he no longer considers the Nazis who fled to Argentina to have been saved. Perhaps the Nuremberg trials were not the worst thing that could have happened to them.

I feel sorry for him. We hug. I pat his soft back twice. And I think:

No, I don’t want to adapt to this.