User:Darouet

"War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary. It lies in human nature that deep emotion cannot be prolonged indefinitely, either in the individual or in a people, a fact that is known to all military organizations. Therefore it requires an artificial stimulation, a constant “doping” of excitement; and this whipping up was to be performed by the intellectuals, the poets, the writers and the journalists, scrupulously or otherwise, honestly or as a matter of professional routine. They were to beat the drums of hatred and beat them they did, until the ears of the unprejudiced hummed and their hearts quaked. In Germany, in France, in Italy, in Russia, and in Belgium, they all obediently served the war propaganda and thus the mass delusion and mass hatred, instead of fighting against it. The results were disastrous... Shakespeare was banned from the German stage, Mozart and Wagner from the French and English concert halls, German professors declared that Dante had been Germanic, the French that Beethoven had been a Belgian, intellectual culture was requisitioned without scruple from the enemy countries like grain and ore. It was not enough that thousands of peace-loving citizens were killing each other daily at the front. In the hinterland there was mutual berating and slandering of the great dead of the enemy countries, who had been slumbering in their graves for centuries. The mental confusion increased in absurdity... It soon became impossible to converse reasonably with anybody in the first war weeks of 1914."

- Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

I am an evolutionary biologist with interests in history, literature and philosophy. Darouet is taken from "d'Arouet:" François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) adopted the nom de plume Voltaire following his imprisonment in the Bastille in 1717.

Articles I've started:


 * Gabriel Wagner
 * Timber Sycamore
 * Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
 * Carrie G. Stevens
 * Misr Spinning and Weaving Company
 * Genovese sauce
 * Khosrow Sofla
 * Boris Gusman
 * Ferenc Szaniszló
 * Lower Babur
 * National Defense Authorization Act
 * Turkana Basin
 * Mullah Dadullah Front
 * George B. Cooper
 * Levant Schooner Flotilla
 * Globigerina bulloides
 * National Security Higher Education Advisory Board
 * Bill 78
 * Nicholas of Freising
 * Jean de Beaune
 * John and William Merfold
 * Wych Cross
 * Disposition Matrix
 * Execution of Roy Mitchell
 * Sharif Abbas Halim
 * Domestic Security Alliance Council
 * Go Gawa poetry club
 * 1033 program
 * Arab Sharkas case
 * Lynwood Vikings
 * Loganellia
 * Death of Sandra Bland
 * Yasser Salihee
 * Tar Island
 * Cryogenic distillation
 * Kanapoi
 * Loriu Plateau
 * Etheria
 * Loita Plains
 * Aiyangiyang
 * Karsa, Kenya
 * Vivian Forbes
 * Shooting of Charles Kinsey
 * Adrian C. C. Seligman
 * Francis Harold Brown
 * KBS Tuff
 * Social-National Assembly
 * Inn Din
 * Pelagodinium béii
 * Doraleh Container Terminal
 * Harry H. Wachtel
 * Charles Richard Taylor (biologist)
 * Bani Walid detention camp
 * 4-Aminophenylmercuric acetate
 * Interpreti Veneziani
 * Shooting of Antwon Rose Jr.
 * Rapid Intervention Battalion, Cameroon
 * Marguerite Brazier
 * Krong Poko River (Vietnam)
 * Plei Krong Dam
 * United International Supplies
 * Matamoros strike
 * United Kenya Club
 * Friends of Lake Turkana
 * Aero Club of East Africa
 * Chu Pong Massif
 * Lo Khac Tam
 * Nguyen Ngoc
 * Le Quan Cong
 * vi:Lê Văn Cho
 * Erklärung 2018
 * N1-Methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide
 * Salak, Cameroon
 * Lowarengak
 * En Esur
 * Killing of Manuel Ellis
 * Killing of Javier Ambler
 * Tobong’u Lore
 * Death of Michael Reinoehl
 * Republik
 * Silva Gadelica
 * Liliya Stepanovna Drozdova
 * Murder in Kinshasa
 * Eddy Kapend

Articles I've translated:
 * Abri Pataud
 * Oswald Rothaug
 * Madame de La Carlière
 * Igors Šiškins
 * Alfred W. Crompton
 * Menelikia
 * Israel Borisovich Gusman

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