Two Excerpts from The King by Donald Barthelme

"Lobsters," said Arthur.
"What?" said Sir Kay.
"Lobsters are the only thing most people kill with their own hands," said Arthur. "In the modern world."
"Not we," said Sir Kay. "We smite the enemy."
"We are different," said Arthur. "we are professional soldiers. Most people don't even kill chickens. They buy them at the market, neatly wrapped. The encounter between man and lobster remains, in this civilization, the last direct experience of killing something."

and also,

"In former times bombing had some military purpose or other--taking out a railroad, smashing an enemy's factories, closing down the clocks, that sort of thing. Today, not so. Today, bombing is meant to be a learning experience. For the bombed. Bombing is pedagogy. A citizen with a stick of white phosphorous on his roof begins to think quite seriously about how much longer he wants to continue the war."