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Wed 15 Dec, 2004 12:10 am
Will =?
context:
Not very long ago, how wonderful was the position of the New World where man had no enemies but himself and to be happy and to be free it was enough to will it to be so.
Today American troops are scattered around the world from the plains of Northern Europe to the mountains of Afghanistan and the plains of Iraq in search of a phantom enemy, bombing and killing innocent Afghan and Iraqi men, women and children.
I means to decree, or bring into effect through mental powers somehow. Sort of like people who take placebos (ineffective pills/etc that look like medicine but aren't) sometimes will themselves to get better. If that makes any sense. The context is a romanicisation of a past when no one hurt each other, and thus your happiness was only dependant on what you willed. *eyeroll*
Got it. Will here acts as a complete verb. Right?
Thanks.
Yeah, as opposed to a particle indicating future tense something.
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