A dialectical view of violence.

We must learn to distinguish betwixt Erinyes and Justitia and all will be well. Easier said than done, easier said than done!

Quoting Agent Smith

We must learn to distinguish betwixt Erinyes and Justitia and all will be well. Easier said than done, easier said than done!

Why is that distinction important? Especially in relation to what I said.

The US conducted a protracted global holocaust in the wake of 9/11. There is no chance that that mindless murder does not work its way back in the form of children shooting other children in the face in school, en masse, among other things.

Reply to Streetlight Quoting Streetlight

The US conducted a protracted global holocaust in the wake of 9/11. There is no chance that that mindless murder does not work its way back in the form of children shooting other children in the face in school, en masse, among other things.

It can just as well work it’s way forward.

Quoting Jackson

the violence you perform on others will be done to you.

How does this work for multiple murderers, for example? On the face of it, there is bound to be a discrepancy. You know, you drop a bomb on Hiroshima, and have to die a few thousand deaths...

Empire, born of genocide slavery & apartheid, breeds foreign and domestic terrorism.

Malcolm X, from 12-1-63 press conference (re: JFK assassination):President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon... Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad.

Quoting Streetlight

The US conducted a protracted global holocaust in the wake of 9/11. There is no chance that that mindless murder does not work its way back in the form of children shooting other children in the face in school, en masse, among other things.

That is what I think, yes.