I saw something on the TV recently in which aficionados were
waxing eloquent about some ceremonial sword – a collector’s item, apparently – and
I got to thinking…
The sword is a very sharp piece of metal designed by human beings to cause great harm to other human beings – to sever limbs and heads from bodies, to slash faces leaving livid scars, to make hideous holes in people, thereby causing massive pain, and in many cases death. And now we elevate the sword to the status of art.
I haven’t yet worked out what this says about the human mindset.
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