While there are nonetheless many points of Shoah which do lie in parallel to the factors of other massacres, Shoah remains unique in the horrifying history of man's cruelty toward his fellow man. Four salient visible elements that are universal among modern genocide include the State’s stranglehold over language formation and alteration, law, media, movements within the state territory, and monopoly over the fostering or decimating of population numbers. Rationality and irrationality are to these four elements what the unmentioned "pharmakos" was to the pharmakeia-pharmakon-pharmakeus chain – a "trace" most vividly seen out of the periphery of one’s eye, so to speak. This metaphoric "trace" of rationality/irrationality serves an additional, more sober purpose in the genocide study. Just as its absence yet signified presence in a text disavows the possibility for the text’s total closure, so too does the unreferenced rationality/irrationality trace signified so loudly in unending camp massacre disavow the possibility for a conclusive containment of Shoah.