underworld war by terror cognitive dissonance

"I postulate the conception of an instinct for death or destruction. War is the expression of our unconscious desire for destruction. We will unmask man as a savage beast who knows no respect for beings of his own species. If I tell you to remember those horrors of the great migrations, of the irruptions of the Huns, of the Mughals under Genghis Khan and Timur, of the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders and even the cruelties of the last World War, you will have to humbly bow to reality of this conception".
― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).

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