Re: I think you've validated the quote there to be honest! Archived Message
Posted by Si on April 4, 2019, 3:25 pm, in reply to "I think you've validated the quote there to be honest!"
Well yes, and no. I am saying that people in general are not evil - but there is an insuperable evil abroad in the form of psychopathic institutions that have honed their evil-doing across the centuries - and whilst it's true that, as RW Emerson said, 'an institution is but the lengthened shadow of an individual'; those institutions and individuals therein are so beyond redemption that they need to be destroyed. It's not enough to identify and 'overthrow the tyrants and warmongers of our time' because as you rightly note others will fill the vacuum. We need, as I said, to convince a critical mass that the prime evil exists. That is the challenge - and then, as you note, the system might be rejected 'in order that the good in people's hearts (or minds if you prefer) can flourish more forcefully than the evil'.
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