title: Confronting War: An Examination of Humanity's Most Pressing Problem
author:  Ronald J. Glossop 
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zlib_text: War of the Worlds:
  What about Peace?
  Bruno Latour
  Translated from the French by Charlotte Bigg 
  Edited by John Tresch
  PRICKLY PARADIGM PRESS
  CHICAGO
  
  1
  911
  The lesson does not seem to sink in. When did Paul
  Valéry prophetically observe that, “We have now
  learned that all civilizations are mortal?” Just after
  the so-called Great War. Many horrific disasters have
  passed since, and yet we are still surprised when
  another attack seems to threaten the precarious
  forms of life so dear to our hearts. Since September
  2001, we go on dialing the same emergency number,
  911, and rightly so, since we have entered a state of
  emergency. We look around frantically to understand
  why all that we feel is worth fighting for remains so
  fragile. I read in the news that Hollywood
  scriptwriters rushed to revise the catastrophist
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