Sunday, April 5, 2009
Dilemma 4/5/09
hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young
--e. e. cummings
You have the magical power to stop one and only one of the following two scenarios. Which would you prevent?
1. The world is consumed by hatred.
2. The world is consumed by fear.
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Too late. (Isn't the world already consumed by both hatred and fear?)
But if we could turn back time... I think I would prevent scenario 2 because people who aren't consumed by fear are able to fight hatred. iow, the power of hate is diminished when people aren't fearful. If you look at any society where a group has been persecuted, while that likely was instigated by the hatred of a few people in positions of power, what allowed it to continue was the general population who didn't say or do anything to stop it because they were fearful of being targeted themselves.
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