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So does that mean "documents are dead" is dead?

It's Ironic, the disconnect (to use a modernism) between appearance and reality. You'd think that when a country is at war, a perpetual state of emergency would be in order. After all, war is the most serious business on the planet. When our fellow citizen-soldiers die, their names would be immediately announced, as heroes, for all to hear. That there would be relentless coverage of each noble battle, and sacrifice required from all of us to assert our common principles--the ones that we are in harm's way for.

The appearance is one where the killed are anonymous (completely contrary to the great historical traditions, for example in the Illiad), and the war is reduced to a news item, inserted arbitrarily into the media--all business as usual.

We have become numb to killing and death, as it has become commonplace. Happy Holiday!

:)

It was always the paperish documents that were dead. Or so I seem to recall.