And thus, the cycle completes itself. Years upon years of preparation and conditioning have readied the great host to swarm its first target, the only thing standing between the two being silence and anticipation. The war drums and the proselytizing and the justifying have given way to silence, which itself is there to make way for each side to polish their clubs for the upcoming clobbering unmolested. Impressively, in other much less tangible areas, questions which were once thought to be unanswerable for centuries have finally received their reply. In these 900 years of intermission, were the light side's policies and sacrifices worth it? "No!" Answers the archivist, minuting every passing moment of the present for the historians to come. "No!" Answers the politician, while preparing their contingency platform for their inevitable confrontation with the casualties of war. "No!" Concludes the wise long-lived sage, whose strategic silence and plausible liability have defended them from rational criticism. Echoing through the centuries to come, cutting cleanly between the cosmic noise of the outcome of the slaughter, that is the response which will be gracing those with ears to hear. No, it was not worth it. NO! Enough was NOT done! And the legacy of anyone remembered among those who tried, will be forever marked by the branding iron of their failure. -Unnamed polemic magazine |
