Peace & Oil

Dear all, During the transition between last and this year - between the Obama administration and the new one - between a world that seems, in retrospect, to have been predictable and so easy to live in, before non-linear causality broke through in public discours (see Hypernormalisation for more on that), my grandfather died. I know, another important piece of information for the world wide web - the echo chamber of self-centeredness. It's not so much that he died that is worth writing about, it's that he was the last of his bataillon - of the French Free Forces. The last to have survived battles such as Bir-Hakeim, El Alamein, etc. He also was someone complex - and that's it. But with him disappears another member of this generation who fought and saw so much destruction at such young age. Of course, the level of unpredictability and the multiple alarming factors in our current world make the comparison with 1938 very easy. Some objective factors are there again, li