“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
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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Without consciously seeking them out, in chance meeting by meeting, wild animals have remade my life. They have bestowed upon me better sight, meaning that they have taught me to ‘see’ more acutely and on a wider plane. They have caused me to pay attention to movement, colors, the sky, scat, rubs, trails, behavior. They have broadened and deepened my empathy, made me a believer in a transcendence that has […]
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Perhaps this begins to make sense of the daily horror movie we endure: the Civil War never ended, Lee’s surrender merely a pause while those forces of aristocracy and white supremacy took the time to remake themselves into what we see now: a blatantly racist President of a blatantly white supremacist Party, supported by an array of reactionary corporate interests, appealing to a narrowing base […]
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