The International Dada Centennial Committee must not fail to mention that, in the context of a celebration of the declaration, in 1914, by a group of artists in neutral Switzerland that art had failed in its task of civilizing mankind by, among other things, preventing the senseless mass slaughter on the battlefields of France, it is at least disturbing and perhaps ironic that in the years leading to the great war, many artists and intellectuals in Europe actually looked forward to a great war. They "reasoned" that the old Europe of the 19th century needed to be swept away and the most effective way for this sweeping to take place would be a great war.

When the war broke out, German Expressionist painter Franz Marc went so far as to volunteer to join the German army, fully aware that this would put him in the position of firing bullets at his own British and French friends. It was a brilliant stroke of poetic justice that he was the one killed in battle. Whether or not he was shot by one of his British or French friends is not known.

Cultural terrorist experiences fear and trembling that, deep down inside, he harbors similar sentiments of these long dead artists and intellectuals, that something needs to sweep away the tired old thought and behavior patterns of the 20th century and that a great war might do the trick, even though great wars can be so much greater these days. Cultural Terrorist is too old to be drafted. And he lives in a place that no one would bother to nuke. So, if he does secretly harbor such sentiments, he is doubly a dick.