Saturday, June 18, 2022

In The Company of Fools, Cynics and Bigots

Vladimir Putin speaking at a Russian space centre

It can be almost impossible to fathom

that even with raw, hard evidence

there will always be those eager to

express their beliefs that cast doubt on

the reality of the most incredulously

mind-disturbing atrocities taking place

in full view of witnesses and those who

suffer the agonizing loss of life of those

who make their lives feasible. Yet there

they are, the Holocaust deniers and the

defenders of Russian imperialist war

mongering, clinging to their intransigent

views in the contortion of fantasy posing

as fact. An exploration in and of itself of

human nature, propelled variously by

hatred, by ideology, by stupidity, by the

stubborn refusal to surrender outdated

alliances that have long since proven

they have left the company of humanity

with no regrets, not even a lingering doubt.


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