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| the Literary Expression of Battlefield Touchstones ™ | |
| ISSN 1542-1546 Volume 02 Number 03 Summer ©Jul 2004 |
"The opportunity to create peace is freedom. The prohibition against making war is enslavement."
anonymous
The kind of people who love to hate truly
believe that there is only one right way, one
true and correct way ... and it just happens, by a remarkable
coincidence of birth and acculturation and inculcation, to be
their way! ... which means that their opponents
and adversaries must, ipso facto, be misguided,
mistaken, or wrong because they are inherently ignorant, stupid,
or evil! These are also the same people who always have an excuse
for their errors or failures, and are only responsible for proven
successes, which their mean-spirited opponents always
try to quash or usurp, or to abate or adumbrate. Their maniacal
and irrational witch hunts for culpable scapegoats, who
shall be summarily tried on the evidentiary twaddle of
straw-men and stalking-horses in the rancorous
kangaroo court of public opinion convened by the
despotic mass media, bespeaks an insatiable (if not degenerate)
blood lust. These champions of unconditional
detestation believe that they can solve all the world's
problems by boring them to death with specious logic, insipid
slogans, and professional protests. They are willing to resist
their enemies with speeches and strikes, with boycotts and
marches, with consciousness raising and publicity stunts; but
inglorious and selfless work is beyond them. They will huddle in
the trenches as summer soldiers, and stand on the
ramparts as sunshine patriots, but only in defense of
the noble and worthy causes sanctified by anointed bellwethers.
They have the courage of their convictions, but not the courage
of consideration. They warrant themselves immune, by virtue of
associative inoculation, to both ancient auguries and modern
prophesies. The license they have arrogated for their motives is
a profanation of the tenets of freedom and
liberty! Because their agenda is transformative,
they imagine themselves progressive. They consider their
political activism benign to fellow travelers and their
tyrannies beneficial to true believers. They believe
that their narrow-minded and short-sighted reductionism, a form
of neo-puritanism that will eventually extinguish itself
by some arcane Marxist alchemy after exterminating pluralism, can
never attain the absurd extremism that has destroyed other social
experiments, because they are demonstrably much too
smart to ever let their dynamic reformation get out of
control! ... to ever diffuse the focus of their righteous
animosity! ... to ever repeat the mistakes of the past! These
ideologues are intractable, relentless, and merciless. They seek
converts, not dialectical compromises. They seek indoctrination,
not analytical exposure. They seek conquest, not concession or
conciliation. They, paradoxically, love to hate!
... it seems to fulfill their black hearts and
twisted spirits. In their pose of calculated polemics,
they shall forever distort hope and faith, charity and love into
perverse patterns and ulterior configurations. They cannot
imagine a community that does not depend upon them, nor an earth
beyond their jejune cerebrations, nor a heaven beyond their
wildest dreams ... as if serenity could be regulated, and
contentment could be mandated. They are the enduring nemesis of
sovereign trust and common forbearance. In the name of peace,
they are the precipitants of conflict and contention and
violence. They are the true antagonists of every honorable creed.
"Good is only recognized when it departs, and Evil when it arrives."
ancient proverb