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It’s why they have to kill in order to find out
whether they’re real. This is where the violence
comes from. This meaningless slaying around our
streets is the work of people who have lost all
identity and who have to kill in order to know if
they’re real or if the other guy’s real. I suppose
that one could even produce a theory of war to
say that when a certain amount of technological
change happens very quickly to a whole
community, they are so lost about who they are
that they want a basic war to find out. It’s
another way of crashing through to find one’s
identity. Violence as a form of quest for identity is
one thing the people who have been ripped off feel