Death and War: Daily life in perspective

While Camus posited, correctly, that the only real problem of human existence was suicide (because. one way or the other, you therefore assert values that lead you to justify and question human existence and your own life), I am now considering a variation thereof, or the next level thence (nice word, isn't it?): death--which can be in moral/general terms, or on the individual level--and war--which is more reality-grounded as well as practical and general, and deals with the death of many, not just of the individual or of an individual. (And war leads to poverty, misery, neglect, traumas/psycholgical disorders, economic problems, infrastructure problems, raises questions of education (certainly in human terms, something often neglected/ignored in educational curricula and milieus), etc., etc.)

A fascinating thinking grid there, which, like Camus' suicide interrogation, does indeed throw into relief the basics of human existence (power plays/politics, "values", shock of cultures or civilizations and/or beliefs, etc. (including religions, since so many are still hooked on that medieval, or pre-medieval in fact, system).

The questions of human existence with these two swords of Damocles hanging over our heads does take on some sharp contrasts in this grid. Big, or bigger, picture considerations, to begin with both on a personal or philosophical level, in absolute terms, and then of course on the level of practical and relative terms.

So, I'll leave it at that for now. But once you delve into those two questions, read, and reflect upon war experiences or death (and Tim Russert's is a case in point), think of here and now while bearing in mind that at this very second, someone is probably dying somewhere in the world, and that a war is on, and therefore many are making life-changing and life-threatening decisions, in this very moment, things do look a bit different, don't they? Everything, the here and now, is at least slightly shifted or tweaked, put in perspective, or deeper, once you have these two considerations actively or acutely in mind...