#+BEGIN_QUOTE In these instances action has lost the quality through which it transcends mere productive activity, which, from the humble making of use objects to the inspired creation of art works, has no more meaning than is revealed in the finished product and does not intend to show more than is plainly visible at the end of the production process. Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless, whereas an art work retains its relevance whether or not we know the master's name. ==The **monuments** to the "**Unknown Soldier**" after World War I bear testimony to the then still existing need for glorification, for finding a "who," an identifiable somebody whom four years of mass slaughter should have revealed. The frustration of this wish and the unwillingness to resign oneself to the brutal fact that the agent of the war was actually nobody inspired the erection of the monuments to the **"unknown," to all those whom the war had failed to make known and had robbed thereby, not of their achievement, but of their human dignity**.5== --- [5] William Faulkner's A Fable (1954) surpasses almost all of World War I literature in perceptiveness and clarity because its hero is the **Unknown Soldier**. [[Tuntematon sotilas(无名战士)]] #+END_QUOTE The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
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