Twentymiglia
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If you can handle the gorgeous formality and erudition, this text is worth listening to, especially now.
With these words I should like to draw the reader’s attention to the main difficulty he has to face. The horror which the dictator States have of late brought upon mankind is nothing less than the culmination of all those atrocities of which our ancestors made themselves guilty in the not so distant past. Quite apart from the barbarities and blood baths perpetrated by the Christian nations among themselves throughout European history, the European has also to answer for all the crimes he has committed against the dark-skinned peoples during the process of colonization. In this respect the white man carries a very heavy burden indeed. It shows us a picture of the common human shadow that could hardly be painted in blacker colors. The evil that comes to light in man and that undoubtedly dwells within him is of gigantic proportions, so that for the Church to talk of original sin and to trace it back to Adam’s relatively innocent slip-up with Eve is almost a euphemism. The case is far graver and is grossly underestimated.
1969 Bacon, Francis
When we see someone talking to themselves–and it is not obvious they are using their phone–we are always struck with horror.
What is that horror?
Perhaps it’s the degree. That someone’s madness can be so profound that they give it voice! People have been burned at the stake for such transgressions. Perhaps it is the utter distrust we must now have for the person who uses such an essential tool so irresponsibly and unreliably. How can we understand someone who has abandoned such a primal tool as speech? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” But what if the word is the madness of a god?
