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On the very same day, they're talking about wanting us to have more babies. With what support?
April 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#murderbydeath
April 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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I’m reading Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and came across this yesterday.

“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
Totem, tribal, racial, and aggressively missionizing cults represent only partial solutions of the psychological problem of subduing hate by love; they only partially initiate. Ego is not annihilated in them; rather, it is enlarged; instead of thinking only of himself, the individual becomes dedicated to the whole of his society. The rest of the world meanwhile (that is to say, by far the greater portion of mankind) is left outside the sphere of his sympathy and protection because outside the sphere of the protection of his god. And there takes place, then, that dramatic divorce of the two principles of love and hate which the pages of history so bountifully illustrate. Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. The laws of the City of God are applied only to his in-group (tribe, church, nation, class, or what not) while the fire of a perpetual holy war is hurled (with good conscience, and indeed a sense of pious service) against whatever uncircumcised, barbarian, heathen, "native," or alien people happens to occupy the position of neighbor.
March 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM