"To the signs and tools of the State, the man of war opposes his weapons and jewelry. Once again, who could say which is better and which is worse? It is true that war kills, and hideously mutilates. But it is especially true after the State has appropriates the war machine. Above all the State apparatus makes the mutilation, and even death, come first. It needs them preaccomplished, for the people to be born that way, crippled and zombielike. The myth of the zombie, of the living dead, is a work myth and not a war myth."
Deleuze & Guattari

