Gabriel Chevallier, Fear
Read against the machine Instead of beauty, branding
“Most rules lie, yet lies are less shocking, less corrosive than the chosen, cultivated ignorance that Chevallier addresses here.
This ignorance denies the reality of anything which provokes pity.
It is an error to think of such war leaders or, today, economic strategists, as pitiless.
They are abject.
This is what we have to learn and to act upon.
They are abject.”
–Gabriel Chevallier, Fear: A Novel of World War I, quoted in Roger Waters, The Wall, 2015