A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn’t fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn’t even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.
And that’s why it’s up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.
It’s also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.
The idea that they’ll suffer in hell really is a convenient one, isn’t it? You virtuous people are to bite your tongue and bide your time, for god has a plan. Meanwhile the rich traffic and fuck our children because they believe they’re allowed to.
The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. “We ignored Hitler,” he said. “We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all.”
They thought of the government as “They.” The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.
A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn’t fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn’t even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.
And that’s why it’s up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.
It’s also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.
The idea that they’ll suffer in hell really is a convenient one, isn’t it? You virtuous people are to bite your tongue and bide your time, for god has a plan. Meanwhile the rich traffic and fuck our children because they believe they’re allowed to.
Everyone has just enough to not fight back. We aren’t there yet.
Well, except Luigi.
–Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government