“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
Twenty-one murdered in Uvalde, ten in Buffalo, and depending on definitions, there may have been as many as 200 mass shootings in the US so far in 2022. Nothing is going to change because a political majority of the American population have factored in all those deaths as acceptable in terms of this equation: If I get to keep my guns and buy more of just about any type whenever and wherever I want, I’ll […]
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In August 1914 , Solzhenitsyn writes a scene where a character confronts Tolstoy on “his insistence that love is the only proper response to evil”: “You say … that evil does not come from an evil nature, but out of ignorance. But evil refuses to know the truth. Evil people know better than anybody else just what they are doing. And go on doing it.” Evil also needs willing accomplices – media personalities, […]
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(a side note appears at the end of the regular Post) Payton Gendron’s murder of 10 human beings was a rational act, planned for months. He expected to die after killing as many black men and women as possible. He conducted surveillance, chose his target, prepared meticulously to strike and do as much damage as he could. He believed in the lie of the “Great Replacement”, that immigrants and black […]
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On Killers, Untroubled, Who Looked into the Camera at Lynching’s There are oceans we have never known except in stories or ones we read of in books from the safety of shore watching waves crest, wind ravaged. Here is an ocean glutted with bodies with names – with voices real as mine and yours, with mothers. Here is an ocean whose cries crying No vanished into smoke, an ocean of […]
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