“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
The past returns in ways you cannot predict. Matthew* was the son of a prominent doctor who was the star at the local Catholic hospital. They lived in a smart house in the only chic part of the county, a township of industrialists and lawyers and other doctors. His father was aloof, his mother brittle. The home was filled with crucifixes and portraits of Mary bounded by angels and Christ, […]
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The end of the world happens, is happening, has happened, is not so much a trick of the tongue as a matter of bad luck to have been born and lived in one place in a bad time. It is a semantic riddle except for those whose world has been consumed in fire. The end of the world comes for over 150,000 human beings every day, countless animals, who knows how many acres […]
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I have never cared for the aphorism Homo homini lupus, man is wolf to man, because I think better of wolves than I do of men, but spend time reading about Stalin and his henchmen and what they did to Russia and any ideals you may once have harbored about the inherent noble nature of our species will dissolve. Unchecked by law and humanity, or driven by a tyrant, a nation […]
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Fanaticism is a choice. One chooses to place unswerving, unconditional loyalty in a leader, in a faith, a political movement, a sect, faction, creed, idea, ideology. Both the left and right are susceptible to fanaticism. Both may believe they have found the truth and therefore may set down the struggle to think clearly and question, and thus may finally find rest in their certitude. Fanatics consider their full-hearted allegiance to […]
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