Comment by Gathering6678 a day ago
I feel like there are different kinds of "truth": some of them easier than others to be manufactured, e.g. easier to manufacture hatred and war than peace (unless the country is already deep in it and not winning)?
Megadeth covered this in practically one stanza: “peace sells, but who’s buying?”
We keep doing somersaults over dead writers lengthy works when it’s the simple shit in front of our eyes. Including the festering pile of shit HN has become because of dang’s bullshit.
Don’t need Trump or Putin or Mao or Bibi or any other high powered asshole. The ones we have here are more than enough, and they’re no different than these high and mighty pricks.
Either is just as easy. There's just more to be gained manufacturing hatred and war than peace.
This comes in many forms. Political fundraising, pretense for holding onto/expanding power, greasing the cogs of the prison or military industrial complex, etc.
Peace benefits ordinary citizens, but that's not the concern of the white house right now...