The Executioner Who Needs No Excuse — From Colt to the Algorithm
The executioner always needed a justification — a story to tell
himself before sleep. Mamdouh Adwan mapped this with painful
precision in “The Bestialization of Man.” But what happens when
we invent something that doesn’t sleep and needs no story?
From Colt to the machine gun, from the airplane to Oppenheimer,
to algorithms that generate 37,000 target names — a meditation
on the conscience that shrank with every new weapon, until it disappeared.
