Jaskalas
Lifer
- Jun 23, 2004
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“Why do we not make progress?”, “Why is everyone else living as automatons?”.
Apologies, but I must digress and answer something that was not asked. I say we do not "make progress" because a shepherd has not gathered the flock. People would first need to be made... to believe in progress. Before they are willing to drive towards it in both work and in sacrifice. To achieve that end, they must want it. Before they want it, they must be... nudged. Their faith must be moved to align with the goal.
After learning the nature of mankind, I struggle to see value in Democracy. Truly we want and should be free. Yet in that freedom we choose destruction all the same. Perhaps it is just that we have failed so badly. I fail to find value in our achievement. Perhaps other cultures were not so misfortuned as to have befallen this malady, to have fallen to this depth. Though I suspect most, if not all, have blighted.
By right... Trump should have been a mistake. A fluke to be expunged. Yet people clung to him, their identity merged with his... their Egos told the lies. And now no weight of truth will reach their ears. Whatever manner of evil creature he is... many of our people have become the same. Or rather... they always were and I did not see it. They merely waited for an opportunity to show their true faces. That our civility was nothing more than a mask. We are not good people.
The trick, is to realize this nature of mankind is not limited to "them". The "good guys" are also afflicted and are no less willing to offer themselves unto tribal zeal, unto madness.
For a better cause? Well...
At the end of the day, someone is butchering someone else. I do not think the victims care what started it... if the rage of the righteous has reached the innocent and the righteous burn all "others" as heretics irregardless of guilt or truth. There may be a righteous crusade against the evil that is Trumpism, but I'll be damned if I don't pause in horror at the dogmatic zeal to demand uniformity and absolute loyalty on all things. The tyranny of the majority may be an arson intended for Trumpism, but it is a fire that wants to consume us all.
The world is madness, and people but dance upon the pyre.