Our Murderous Nature

100 years ago, in Bosnia, some Weasel popped another Weasel, and then there was a cataclysmic chain reaction that led to the World going to War.  We call that one World War I. And then after that War, things continued to get weird, and then another cataclysmic chain of events led to World War II.

And there was lots of mayhem, and slaughter, and mass killings, and mindless murder, and human beings of all stripes unleashed massive tons of bombs and terror and fire and blood just about everywhere, and it was all a very, very ugly murderous century.

Yes, Terror ruled. And still lives with us today.  It's easy to forget. Or maybe we just try our best to forget how brutal and ugly human beings can be to each other.  We leave that shit to historians to tell us what happened, and why, but even though there was one grand story, everyone seems to remember the story their own way.

And this helps keep the game going. We have never dropped our murderous ways, we just work it out by other means, in other lands, for other supposed reasons. And we pretend we are intelligent and civilized and good and noble, but it doesn't take much for us to drop the mask, bare our teeth, and reveal our black murderous side of our nature.

And then we turn our heads away, leave others to clean up, and write words in books about courage and honor and create new chapters about the long narrative of human carnage.