Here are a few thoughts on apocalypses, death songs, native genocides, united fronts, peripatetic philosophy, climate catastrophe, capitalist calculation, saintly sacrifice, and whether war can ever be a lesser evil. With reference to Christian apostles, Comanche archers, Colt revolvers, terminal diseases, The Road, The Gulag Archipelago, Empire of the Summer Moon, Blood Meridian, Tecumseh, and Mama Smoke.
1) Climate Comanches, antifascist apostles, saint Che, warriors from Oklahoma and Ohio:
2) Great horse dispersal:
Thank you for your interest friends and enemies and internet strangers. Here’s a closing hymn.