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Adversaries locked in violent conflict exchange acts of aggression. With each act, they attempt to end the fight, to have the "last word of violence." Yet, the exchanges only produce symmetry: as they go blow-for-blow, rather than establishing difference, they become more and more alike. This dynamic applies to all pursuits of desire, which are always pursuits of some transcendental difference, but it becomes the most manifest when a pursuit flares up into open conflict, or war. However, the pursuit never ends in transcendence, or "libidinal impregnability." It produces death as it chugs along, and it ends in sacrifice.

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