“As much as I’d love to believe that ours is an evolving species, the truth in old ills remains buried, deep within our souls, like torrid brands emblazoned upon scattered lengths of our DNA. We grow up learning about monsters from our eternal pasts, those demonic perpetrators of holocaust and genocide, and we wince, and we think we’d not allow such horrors to happen ever again, that times are different and that we’ve enlightened ourselves since. But Hitlers, Napoleons, and Pol Pots are only as powerful as the people who’d provision them, cheering clamorously to their dictates, and through perspectives of time such perspectives are often warped; a Hitler is rightly demonized, but what of a British government that turned blind eyes on its nearest colony during famine, sometimes even thanking providence for such a ‘purposeful blessing,’ thereby allowing over one-eighth of that colony – Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century – to die of starvation? Genocides are relative to victories and hate is to power; our tasks as people, as voters and as mobs, is to see through the scapegoats and crazed mutterings of would-be despots, and cut them off by their roots before they’re ever able to grow into things so much stronger –and more devastating – than they themselves alone could ever be. And it should be easy, you see, when the tyrant’s very strength comes through us: we only have to hold reign to our fears.History will always judge us, just as we ourselves judge the invaders of times past, and present – the complacent populations of evil empire, the puppets played by Caesar and Mao. Old libraries are filled with the sentiments of days gone by, of scathing caricature and contemptuous cartoon, biting editorials and mournful records scribed on moldering parchments and crumbling scrolls. When the present world fears us we should wonder, and we should engage in discourse with our fellow citizens who don’t; there are always, always, those lines we should not cross, and we must always worry where it is that we tread.” -Keelan McMorrow
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