While listening to the Jonestown tape is one of the most chilling experiences I can think of, the tragedy is to my mind somehow almost uplifting. This mind boggling pointless act, like all cult tragedies, is what comes of isolation. Shunning society can do considerable mental harm no doubt. So it is less a failure of society than a failure to be social.
The real tragedies --the ones that lead me to fear for our overall well being-- are acted out within the greater social order. I give you the Sudan where murder, rape and mass destruction are, to this day, committed on its nationals by its very own government. The way I see it, us in our great well of resources are only that far removed. When there is not enough to go around then surely only the strongest will survive and do so by savagery. So I say, to prepare for this day...please remember these very effective (they have successfully worked in Sudan and they can work for you!) measures:
1. Poison your neighbors' drinking water by murdering their children and throwing them into the water supply thereby poisoning it.
2. You're white, you're neighbor is white...but are they "white white?" If you have to ask, they probably aren't. Find a gun and shoot them.
3. Kill the children so they can't reproduce. Rape the women to demoralize the men. Kill the old people just for fun.
4. Take what you can use and destroy the rest.
5. God loves you. Use this. You are better than them. God is on your side.
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It's good to have clear objectives. Thanks.
I'd say all tragic events are, uh, tragedies. Barring that hilarious joke, I get your point.
I just learned through a Terry Jones documentary that prior to the Crusades, medieval knights (those chivalrous sons of bitches) had been known to attack European cities, barricade the town and kill everyone inside. Also the chivalric code only applied to their own kind --killing women and children and other ordinary citizens was not out of the ordinary...not that they were doing it for God at that point (not prior to the Crusades anyway).
None of this bodes well for future peace does it?
Not a whit, sir.
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