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Peter Burnett's avatar

Leaping out of the page at me from an article --Charlie Warzel: "I'm running out of ways to say how bad this is"' -- in yesterday's Atlantic, the words of a meteorologist:

"Murdering meteorologists won't stop hurricanes."

At issue, the thing I -- born into WW2 -- feared most all my life: mass madness.

We lived through this madness in the first years of my life -- and the horror was unimaginable.

Then, in 1945 and after the Nuremberg trials and the trial and execution of Japanese militarists, we believed that by killing men's bodies we had obliterated the poisonous ideas they stood for.

Such gross delusion.

The rivers of poison went underground. And now, nearly 80 years later they have burst forth again in the most improbable places. Among the peoples who were the greatest victims of the Nazi-Fascist onslaught. In our midst.

Expanding this vast inundation, the new cuckoo-in-our-nest technologies spreading "Virtual Reality".

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

The battle is over but the war goes on....

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