sábado, setembro 20, 2025

Bob, the Truthteller.

 
"There remains only a minuscule group of people on this planet who have NOT justified the indiscriminate murder of civilians for one reason or another, at some point over the last five years. About eighty percent did it because they were sold a story about a virus. Another nineteen percent did it because they were sold a story about some paragliding bogie men and hostages. Obviously, whether or not those stories were true makes no difference to the moral argument, because the whole point, the vital point, is that your moral foundations are supposed to survive intact through any narrative, any scenario, any emotional blackmail. You can’t sit comfortably at the dining table for years and years, solemnly declaring that you think children must be protected at all costs, that violence against children is always wrong, and then immediately hurl the nearest toddler under a bus as soon as some dick head in a lab coat shouts, 'PANDEMIC!' Neither can you set fire to the nearest baby as soon as some knobend in a kippah shouts, 'DESTROY HAMAS!'

Imagine what that does to the energy of a species. The collective consciousness, the connection to God, however you want to think of it. Millions and millions of people justifying murder. For years and years. How on earth do you think we’re supposed to come back from that? When ninety nine percent of us can’t open our mouths again without a sulphuric cloud of hypocrisy belching forth. Generally, it’s catastrophic. Specifically, it means that killing becomes more and more commonplace. The law of violence reigns supreme."

in "O Bitchary"