The Tools Of Wrath

Warhammer

I was thinking of the Holocaust. It was part of the history of Western Society. It differentiates itself from past atrocities - like the slaughters by Joshua or those perpetrated by the Assyrians - by its scientific and rational approach to Death, from the chemist's work being used to gas innocent people to IBM's supplying of the tally machines of the killing fields. We say "Never Again!"...but how shall we deny our history? We are in Western Society. We did repudiate the Holocaust. We did condemn the Holocaust. But we did not excise the virus of hatred from our hearts. It lingers, and we find it hard to control. How much of our inter-personal discourse is hate and scorn? Read a few political blogs; scorn, contempt, anger. Thus far in the life of the West, the Tools of Wrath have served us well. We have lost a few millions of souls here and there, but overall we have an enviable record. We become complacent in our ability to wreak havoc, and yet to pull back from the threshhold of total annihilation. How shall we ensure that it never happens again, when there are full dress rehearsals going on all over the globe? How?