Yes
we need the Ed Kemper, the Richard Ramirez, the David Parker Ray...
and what would our culture be without the great genocidal artworks of
the last century? The grotesque mass-executions of Treblinka, the
Norillag, the forced extreme labouring camp in the Soviet Union where
bad nights could reach -61 degrees... the Holodomor, how the Soviet
authorities starved the Ukrainian people resulting in millions of
bodies... or the so-called Three
years of difficulty in
Maoist China... those communist fucks sure love their euphemisms...
we need what happened in Rwanda; in Nanjing; in My Lai; in Srebrenica
and in Oświęcim...
we need the sum total of all genocides to haunt us as spectres in our
silent hallways at night; we need reminding, and we should not fall
to sleep, lest we might dream of utopia... we need to be captivated
by the darkest of raging fires – what can we be without them? We
must feed the fire of hate, lest the fire of hate feeds us, and makes
us, in its glistening light, see things that are not real; we must
contain the flames and sparks of hate, lest its shine brighten the
path of madness and self-destruction and leaves us possessed by the
devils... what might we learn of the failed rapist other than the art
of his invasive terror? Time shall tell, but there is a lesson to be
learned in every second happening in this world...
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