chapter 19 interregnum of democracy and chapter military helicopters pass overhead , but then of course they would ; of course there would be a coup dtat that if not able to rectify the situation , then by absolute fiat , at least for a while , proscribes these two sides from confrontation -- sides that have been increasingly dehumanizing each other in that abstraction of the enemy that allows them to conscientiously eradicate others the way one would in enjoining a surgeon for an abscission of tissue deemed as cancer .