Evil has a heavy cost. I don't mean people are evil, not unless they are soulless leaders, whose whole life revolves around crushing everyone and everything into capital to serve their devourous ego. I mean people get caught up in movements that are based on hate, fear and division, a trap of deceit requiring the acceptance of vast, vast lies, the sort of Big Lie that Hilter refers to in Mein Kampf.
We won't survive another wave of fascism. Or Stalinism. Both Hitler and Stalin committed genocide, killing millions of people. World War 2 saw nuclear weapons dropped. The country that dropped them, the USA, is now supplying Israel with weapons -- weapons being used to wage war to inflame the world, moving from Gaza to Lebanon and now into Iran. Israel is also using US weapons for ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.
The evils of WWII are back. And the threat of WWIII. But too many people have been pulled into a spiral of fear around a black hole generated by the bottomless insecurity of demagogues. There is a way out of the pull, but I doubt we will find it. Which makes our descent all the more tragic.
The answer is simple, but the solution is impossible.
Light has come into the world, but the people preferred darkness, for their deeds were evil (John 3:19)
(The Bible is a great source book of wisdom, even when one is not Christian)
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