“[…] As for the new world war that’s waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed fetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We’ve already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there’s a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It’s sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It’s a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....”