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The lament playing over this footage from the First World War is “Sgt. MacKenzie<\/a>” by Joseph Kilna MacKenzie
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Here’s Frye in “Hart House Rededicated,” delivered on the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Hart House<\/a>, University of Toronto, November 11th, 1969.\u00a0 As so often happens with Frye on public occasions, somehow everything comes together with a resonance that is immediately recognizable.\u00a0 In this instance, the elements are the anniversary of Hart House, Remembrance Day, and our hard won — and too easily lost — sense of community.<\/p>\n

Since 1919, a memorial service at the tower, along with an editorial in the Varsity<\/em> attacking its hypocrisy and crypto-militarism, has been an annual event of campus life.\u00a0 Certainly I would not myself participate in such a service if I thought that its purpose was to strengthen our wills to fight another war, instead of to fight against the coming of another war.\u00a0 That being understood, I think there is a place for the memorial service, apart from the personal reason that many students of mine have their names inscribed on the tower.\u00a0 It reminds us of something inescapable in the human situation.\u00a0 Man is a creature of communities, and communities enrich themselves by what they include: the university enriches itself by breaking down the middle-class fences and reaching out to less privileged social areas; the city enriches itself by the variety of ethnical groups it has taken in.\u00a0 But while communities enrich themselves by what they include, they define themselves by what they exclude.\u00a0 The more intensely a community feels its identity as a community, the more intensely it feels its difference from what is across its boundary.\u00a0 In a strong sense of community there is thus always an element that may become hostile and aggressive.<\/p>\n

It is significant that our memorial service commemorates two wars, both fought against the same country.\u00a0 In all wars, including all revolutions, the enemy becomes an imaginary abstraction of evil. Some German who never heard of us becomes a “Hun”; some demonstrator who is really protesting against his mother becomes a “Communist”; some policeman with a wife and a family to support becomes a “fascist pig.”\u00a0 We know that we are lying when we do this sort of thing, but we say it is tactically necessary and go on doing it.\u00a0 But because it is lying, it cannot create or accomplish anything, and so all wars, including all revolutions, take us back to square one of frustrated aggression in which they began.\u00a0 (CW<\/em> 7, 397)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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