To Not Be, Like Them, or something simliar.

In times of turmoil, it has been to demonize the opponent, perhaps a Nazi label.  If we think of THEM as treating people bad, we begin to see the opponent then as less human, and more deserving, themselves, of inhuman treatment.  People used to do that.


What good is victory over the inhuman if you sacrifice your own humanity?  What if you became the enemy?  What if it was "Tales of the Black Freighter"?  You became what you hate, you justified yourself and cut corners until finally, it was what you wanted, and the good guys have to send somebody to stop you, Cheever.

Don't become what you hate.  After all, Aurelius said the best revenge was to "not be like them."

Shake your tail fetters.


I also hosted a fake seminar on Natural Serection.  Prediliction and Answerection.

It was good.

I drew stupid pictures while they worked their little worksheets, things like Bart Simpson yelling Ay Carumba and stuff like that, Punisher in an alleyway, and the Michael Jordan sky hook slam pose from the Jordans.  A fakhir gave me one once, a pair, as a gift, and I sat there admiring them and eating candy-coated pistachios.


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