JJ's Blog

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

How much inhumanity does your ideology allow?

As I get older, I get less & less tolerant of the excuse of pragmatism for inhumane actions.

There's all of us.

Then there's each of us.

Then there's everything else,

in that order.

Stupidity & brutality are never news.

They are weather.

They happen everywhere, all the time, differing only in local circumstance.

Truth & love are the bedrock values of any ideology worth a damn.

They are my core values.

By truth, I mean reality as it is, not as I wish it to be.

By love, I mean the selfless regard by which we must interact & cooperate.

I wrote a vampire novel a while ago. It's called Bloodsucking Vegas: a vampire noir, and it's set in Las Vegas, my hometown.

Clinton Romesha's The Red Platoon is one of the best books I've read in a long while.