(Script of a concept realized in photo-montage and statistical tables), 1972

1. It is generally known that war is institutionalized murder or rather, institutions become murderous in war.
2. Institutions are established for the purpose of serving people, but in our days they have become the masters, determinants, and often the murderers of people.
3. Along with retaining the useful role of institutions, people should be given the opportunity to express their superiority to institutions.
4. When each person makes the same gesture at the same time, a form of human solidarity manifests itself which reaches beyond leaders and the led, conflicting states or groups, or guards and the guarded, a solidarity which shows that, for instance, the similarity between the prisoner and the warder is greater than between the warder and the prison, or between the prisoner and captivity.
5. According to the logic of massacre, if everybody kills two persons, all of humankind can be exterminated in thirty-two moves, considering that a person cannot be killed twice.
6. If each soldier kills two persons on the average, at least half of the victims will be people who have not killed anybody – irrespective of the number of those involved in the battle. (The number of innocent victims will be the same in the case as well, if each killer kills always a killer and an innocent person – which proves the absurdity of revenge.) And the weapons of mass destruction distort this proportion to an incredible extent.
7. The diagram of massacre is like a reversed genealogical tree. The last killer alive could not have been the cause of the chain reaction of massacre, as the whole process is over by the time he appears on the scene. It looks rather as if the numerous innocent victims (in the last row of the diagram) are those who start and cause the murderous process. This is the reverse of the genealogical tree, where the ancestral progenitor is obviously the cause of all the descendants.
8. The way of defence is the following: each man is to warn two other persons in case of emergency. According to the principle that a man cannot be killed twice, they have to be individually marked (as Göring recommends in the case of the pacifists). In this way it is avoidable that a person is informed twice while others are kept in the dark.
9. If everybody marks only two persons without using any institutional and communicational means, all people in the world can be warned in a very short time and they will be able to defend themselves collectively. At a given moment, the siren-test of solidarity runs around the world.
10. Let us fill the dead numbers of statistics with life!

(Source: Hungría 74. Muestra presentanda por el Centro de Arte y Comunicación. Noviembre Diciembre 1974. CAYC, Buenos Aires)
Published in: The Hidden Holocaust. Műcsarnok, Budapest, 2004

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