Coffee and Cigarettes

"People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us."
He sighed.
"It's people who claim that they're good, or anything better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."
- Wicked

One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we rid ourselves of Chinese, white men will have jobs and white women will have virtue, and then we can stop killing. If only we rid ourselves of Indians, we will fulfill our Manifest Destiny, and then we can stop killing. If only we rid ourselves of Canaanites, we will live in the Promised Land, and then we can stop killing. If only we rid ourselves of Jews, we can build and maintain a Thousand Year Reich, and then we can stop killing. If only we stop the Soviet Union, we can stop the killing (remember the Peace Dividend that never materialized?). If only we can take out the worldwide terrorist network of Bin Laden and others like him. If only. But the killing never stops. Always a new enemy to be hated is found.

—Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (via thenewwomensmovement)

(Source: uncle-iroh, via catruistic)

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    This reminds me of the Slogans of Newspeak: “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
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    This reminds me of the Slogans of Newspeak: “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
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