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April 22, 2015
Hitler’s six million, Stalin’s twenty to thirty million, Mao’s fifty to eighty million…
the twentieth century’s body count is so massive that mere margins of error often run into tens of millions of human lives.Pockets of just over a million such as we find in the Rwandan civil war (a number which also fits the Irish Potato Famines, by the way, where an element of calculated genocide was certainly present) hardly seem to bear inclusion. If we are not to be permanently, fatally stultified, however, by the depth of our own depravity, we must strive to count every body. We must no longer tolerate speech that incites violence. We must purge mass entertainment of its irresponsible representations of mayhem. We must limit the manufacture and distribution of weapons. Those instruments of doom which we have already created must systematically be dismantled…. And so the program goes. Why Is Human History an Inhuman Nightmare? | Intellectual Conservative
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 22, 2015 8:04 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Can't live on ideals. Salve for the conscience maybe but not in the real world. All the pens I've ever seen were not mightier than a sword.
Stalin said: "a million dead? a statistic. One dead? a tragedy."
"Any man I see out there, I'm gonna kill him. Any son of a bitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only going to kill him, I'm going to kill his wife and all his friends and burn his damn house down." William Munny (The Unforgiven)
And if my thought-dreams could been seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
And I will go down swinging, not curled up on the couch whimpering.
Posted by: chasmatic ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at April 22, 2015 8:42 AM
Why Is Human History an Inhuman Nightmare?
Socialism, you dumb shit.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at April 22, 2015 9:44 AM
Just think what this place'd be like now if all them folks hadn't been off'd.
Posted by: ghostsniper at April 22, 2015 10:29 AM
It's when our needs turn into greeds.
It's when we believe our need overrules someone else's need.
Greed x Power = Evil.
Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, that grand old lady Gerard introduced us to a day or two ago -- no greed, no evil, the power of civility, (un)common decency.
Posted by: Stug Guts at April 22, 2015 3:28 PM
"Those instruments of doom which we have already created must systematically be dismantled"
The Rwandan Genocide was mostly managed with machetes. When not using machetes, the perpetrators used clubs or rocks. How do we dismantle clubs or rocks?
It isn't the tool that kills, it is people that kill. If the Tutsis victims had had guns, I don't think there would have been a Rwandan genocide.
It was UN/government inaction that made the genocide possible.
Now the author wants to double down on the same mistake and put everyone's fate into the hands of government?
Posted by: Speller at April 25, 2015 10:37 PM