The installment plan takes revenge on the gratuitous

In short it reduced survival to a fundamental nullity; it proposed, in a condensed version, the long-term plan that the Church had drawn unconsciously from the economic model of survival on credit. Faced with this impatience to empty life of its substance, Catholicism sent out its soldiers of deferred death until confidence in its enterprise was restored. Bloodthirsty repression by the northern crusaders lay waste to a civilization that had been on the verge of finding their own approach to happiness. The victory was a matter of real profits over the rarefied abstraction of exchange; and so, paradoxically, a slow death on the installment plan took revenge on immediate, gratuitous death.

Vaneigem, The Movement of the Free Spirit

"we endeavor to have our products used wherever precision aiming solutions are required to protect individual freedom."

One of those things that is, sadly, far less surprising than it should be, an instance of total, flawless integration that, were it fiction, we would rightly mock as cut-rate lefty post-Vonnegut political surrealism. Turns out a U.S. military arms supplier has been selling them rifle scopes with coded Bible verses on them.

"Weinstein, an attorney and former Air Force officer, said many members of his group who currently serve in the military have complained about the markings on the sights. He also claims they've told him that commanders have referred to weapons with the sights as "spiritually transformed firearm[s] of Jesus Christ."

He said coded biblical inscriptions play into the hands of "those who are calling this a Crusade."