The Org for War and Slavery is particularly delicious, yet hard to unpack why. I suppose that honesty is the main theme. If people universally really wanted peace and freedom, they would not need to form an organization for it. The purpose of such an organization would doubtless either be to persuade nay-sayers — but who would a nay-sayer be, and how would such a one be “brought over” by the propagation of banalities such a group would have to offer? — or to form a coercive super-national organization which would then realize the opposite of what it professes.

There is also no doubt the theme of courage. A society for war and slavery implies commitment beyond merely saving one’s own sorry skin. While “peace and freedom” as such is a merely empty concept, until filled with worthwhile projects. Imagine a society for “breathing and heart beats.” Ok, now we’re breathing and our hearts are beating; they already were; now what?