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progress, the more we increase our chances for collective annihilation. Indeed, despite the potential human benefits of technological advancement, the triumph of the technical over the poetic in political affairs undermines the role of human creativity. How many critical theorists still have to affirm the importance of arts and humanities to the promotion of peace? Theory and science are not objective: we produce the technologies we desire, which are over-coded with all manner of assumptions and prejudices. So, as the technological mind continues to produce war machines
the German war machine through much of the conflict. The position of Switzerland was the most instructive. The Swiss National Bank had been suspected during the conflict of acting as a conduit for gold looted by Germany from the occupied states. The Allied powers made a claim against Switzerland after the conflict for this form of alleged collaboration with Germany, which was settled in 1946 for a