September 22, 2011

chromatichouse asked: Do you think things will get worse?

Put it this way: people at the top are afraid of heights and know how quickly everything (Civilization) can evaporate if they make even five wrong steps in a row. This means that They are perfectly happy to let a mere nigger bite it from time to time. They square what they know is cruelty and injustice against the lines of their system. That this system transforms a man who happens to be black into a nigger, a thing, doesn’t bother them at all. Because the system assumes the racist character and in so doing absolves its operators of blame. To me, that’s why black people are still treated like things when there’s hardly an overt racist to be found anywhere in government. This is how people who think of themselves as merely cautious and responsible end up murderers.

So what happens when human failings get slurped into the system? Think about how calling slavery ‘that peculiar institution’ absolved anyone who profited from it of responsibility. Think about the Holocaust, where massacre, by assuming an industrial character and scale, became like rain. Something that just happened. Think about the gap between the legacy of slavery in America and the legacy of the Holocaust in Europe. Over here it was assumed that the destruction of the machinery itself (the laws permitting slavery and the punishments for escaping it) would be solution enough. Clearly not. Think about the near-religious quality the Holocaust has nowadays. That’s not an accident. That is a deeply humane and correct method of overcoming the flaws that gave it rise.

Things will get better as a function of how willing we are to take things on. Not just take things seriously, but to shoulder them. Because a system that soaks up flaws can only be purged by a torrent of virtue.

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