An excellent meditation on the human potential to choose kindness over cruelty and spite. The two wolves theory. You're right to call "righteous cruelty" for what it is, laziness, a cheap knee-jerk access to 'power'.
Oh man I wish I could put it here, but one of my favorite memes is a picture of two really derpy-looking taxidermied wolves, and it says something like (it's in Spanish), "There are two wolves within me; one of them is a real dummy, and the other one even more" hahahaha
An excellent meditation on the human potential to choose kindness over cruelty and spite. The two wolves theory. You're right to call "righteous cruelty" for what it is, laziness, a cheap knee-jerk access to 'power'.
Oh man I wish I could put it here, but one of my favorite memes is a picture of two really derpy-looking taxidermied wolves, and it says something like (it's in Spanish), "There are two wolves within me; one of them is a real dummy, and the other one even more" hahahaha
Bloody brilliant -- I'm liking your pacing and structure, as well as your content and tone. Abrazos desde Coyoacan!
Thank you, Barbara! I love it when British people say "bloody" haha :D
Soooo true and superbly written, Sarah! Muchas gracias.
Oh, thanks Frances! And would you believe that all day Saturday I was like "man, I don't know WHAT I'm going to write about" hahaha