Evil is not there when it is present, but it is strongly felt. We like to keep evil weak, but pretend it is strong. There is nothing more real than evil before you, but totally at your mercy, and totally undeserving of it. But the begging must stop. For the withering of evil in abandonment is sweet too, but worst is the bittersweet reality of seeing it exposed totally, alone, together, for now, but only to decide when it will let go of all of itself or what is good about it. In the eyes of some, this is society. In others, reason, to leave, or leave aside other things to those who leave. The alternative is war, which is only temporary mental escape.
An elegy for the philosophy killed by the French in War and Peace, in the mode of one man’s musing on the social structure of the Internet. By Ian Hoopingarner
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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