Making weapons.

As I recall, Bertolt Brecht once said something like, ”if there is a rifle hanging over the mantelpiece, it must be used at least once before the end of the play,” when discussing staging a play in the theatre. 

It might be about purifying the expression of theatrical language and symbolically providing signs for the audience to relate to, even before they are actually used- not only as a possibility, but as something inevitable. If it is there, it must be used. 

I can picture myself in the audience, feeling that if it is hanging there for dramatic effect, I want the rifle to be used at least once. I will actually await its use.

The Italian artist and futurist, Marinetti, once said something like, ”a car is beautiful only with the destiny of burning”.

In the process of making a weapon, the material itself seems to strive towards being used, as a form of self-completion. There is a materialistic demand in order to achieve balance, since the input of energy has to come out somehow; it cannot be contained. 

As we like to consider ourselves as lords of the materialistic conditions so generously granted to us in our civilization on this resourceful earth, it may just happen that this is all wrong.

May we, in fact, be in the hands of our creation as something that wants to exist in whatever shape given, something that needs to be materialized in its true, full existence to be made real- I mean really real- in its full potential.

Not to mention our own need of reassurance that we are not wasting our time and money on something totally unnecessary, defined as something that will never be used.

Another word for this could be karma.