Teutonic Order, which was secularized in 1 525 . It was the carbonari, with their "cellular" organization, who became a model for other revolutionary groups, the clandestine movements that in Russia were the axes of a systematized terrorist war, of a permanent nihilism comparable both to the permanent war led by the great orders-first against the Muslims, then, in America, against the Asians-and then the guerrilla war led against Napoleon in Spain . . . Dugesclin, the secret master of the military Temple, had excelled there just as well. 4 In the same way, puritanism and industrialization progress together in Anglo-Saxon countries. With industrial internment, it is redemptive to put the soulless bodies of children and women to work because these bodies are guided by reasonable souls, the souls of engineers assigned to define their attitudes and gestures. Arbeit macht frei: Nazi and Chinese reeducation camps claim this old kinetic belief for themselves.
In these diferent examples, the conqueror, the warrior claims a function that seems to be a perversion of the priest's. For the Judeo-Christians, everything is said from the very first pages of the Bible: the warrior is a perverted priest. In fact, the first murder revolves around the means of occupying and exploiting productive soil, and especially around the rent received by God in exchange. God willingly accepts the sacrifice paid by the shepherd Abel but refuses that of the farmer Cain. The image of the first killer of men bears a direct relation to the rent paid on the earth, and here again everything is said in several lines: the sufering of the soil "opening its mouth'' and crying out as it drinks human blood for the first time-the blood of the territorial body as it slips away. (It shall no longer yield to you its fruit, says God . . . you will be a wanderer crossing over and invading the earth.) Deterritorialized farmer, the first killer of men is immediately designated a builder of cities (a commoner) .
Tt1e Boarding of Metabolic Vehicles
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