I remember war from before I was even a teenager. What I remember most is fear — and not understanding why we keep offering war as a solution. There are countless ways to seek agreement. War should not even be on the menu, let alone be one of the most profitable industries on Earth. Whenever I asked why we do it, I was usually met with a cold shoulder. Maybe people did not want to answer. Maybe they simply did not have one. Now I have children of my own. I have to teach them that violence is not the solution, while at the same time explaining why violence remains one of the biggest recurring investments humanity continues to make. Most people would never want war where they live. Most also understand that if they do not want it for themselves, others do not want it either. And yet, somehow, nearly everyone still supports it in one way or another — through taxes, equipment, salaries, logistics, food, clothing, shelters, and the systems that replace fathers sent away to fight. COVID reignited something in me that had always been there: the feeling that the math simply does not add up. We pretend to hate war, yet we continuously invest in it. If 99% of people say, “It is what it is,” and call it a “necessary evil,” then maybe the real problem is how normal that idea has become. I firmly believe that my children — and all children — should not inherit a single atomic bomb, aircraft carrier, bomber, or tank. Maybe that why UNBROKEN. Reappropriation. Deconstruction. An end to endlessly assembling new instruments of destruction. People spending their lives producing machines designed to destroy what other people have built feels like one of humanity’s greatest wastes of time, energy, and potential. Instead of writing a longer introduction, I will leave you with two songs: one about this subject, and another more personal one. Both were made by me.