{"id":5358,"date":"2026-03-29T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:33:06","slug":"calculating-machine-a-villanelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/calculating-machine-a-villanelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating Machine: A Villain-elle"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn\u2019t war itself war crime?<br \/>Do ends ever justify means?<br \/>Shouldn&#8217;t villains waging war do time?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">War is not sublime.<br \/>Nor is it in our genes,<br \/>this lust which makes war crime.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not some pantomime.<br \/>Villains behind the scenes\u00a0<br \/>are waging war. They should do time<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they bury under rubble and grime<br \/><em>enfants<\/em>, children, teens,<br \/>war itself becomes a crime.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We must defeat the pernicious slime\u00a0<br \/>who drive the calculating machines\u00a0<br \/>of war. They should do time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">War is the very paradigm<br \/>of death: destruction, carnage, screams.<br \/>War itself is war crime.\u00a0<br \/>Villains who wage it must do time. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t war itself war crime?Do ends ever justify means?Shouldn&#8217;t villains waging war do time? War is not sublime.Nor is it in our genes,this lust which makes war crime. This is not some pantomime.Villains behind the scenes\u00a0are waging war. They should do time. When they bury under rubble and grimeenfants, children, teens,war itself becomes a crime. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/calculating-machine-a-villanelle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calculating Machine: A Villain-elle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}