Notes

These are just two quotes from a book I read recently.  I really think they are the truth.

DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS

By Chris Hedges

“A county that stops taking care of its own, that loses the capacity for empathy and compassion, that crumples up human beings and throws them away when it is done with them, breeds dark ideological monsters that will inevitably rise to devour the body politic.

“Violence is also a drug.  Those most addicted to violence are those who have access to weapons and penchant for force.  And killers rise to the surface of all armed movements, even those that could be defined as just, and contaminate them with the intoxicating and seductive power that comes with the capacity to kill and destroy.  I have seen it in war after war.  When you go down that road, you end up pitting your monsters against their monsters.  And the sensitive, the humane, and the gentle, those with a propensity to nuture and protect life, are pushed aside and often murdered.”