Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
There is no more final end than death.
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Nature abhors annihilation.