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During the 7 years between 1938 and 1945
12,000,000 Jews, Communists, Gays, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses
were tortured and slaughtered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The same number of animals
every hour in Europe alone.
We have intelligence enough to butcher our planet (for starters)
but not enough to nurture
The nearest we get to nurture is 'love' which is a condition of possession, yet another form of appropriation.
What defines us as human is the compulsion or desperation to escape reason and logic - the proper functioning of our intelligence - into fantasies, religions, 'altered states', psychedelia and pseudo-science.
Unreason. And it rules us.
And the planet that is dying under our rule of
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