It’s nearly 40 F (4 C) which is warmer than it’s been in a long time. I assume, outside, ice is melting.
Hopefully it will all be completely gone soon.
Today, as I sat here at my desk, blue sky set against buildings and no clouds, I had a thought I could not escape.
Does evil always win?
Eventually?
Because here we are with these epstein details slowly revealed, and it’s probably worse than we imagined, and what we imagined was bad. It was horrifying.
But all those men who abused little girls and women like it was an expensive hobby see no consequences. The version of the government with donald has all the information that it would need to prosecute and convict them.
But it’s not doing that. It didn’t do that. Instead it is protecting them.
I’m not going to pretend we don’t all know why.
It’s not only that, of course. That’s a huge issue, but it’s not only that.
Cruelty for sport is not something I understand. I have never understood it, and it’s part of what makes me weird. I don’t like practical jokes, I don’t enjoy meanness for meanness sake, I don’t understand why, when it’s so easy to be at the very least polite to others, so many people choose not to be.
But it’s like the drive to be cruel is, itself, relentless. There is never enough, it can never be quenched, it can never be satiated.
Can good ever be as tenacious?
Can tenacity spring not from spite but in spite of spite?
I don’t know.
Maybe I’m undercaffeinated and overtired, maybe optimism is harder to maintain for longer periods now, and that’s kind of the point. That’s what the constant emotional filing down is for.
But evil is so endlessly persistent. Seemingly only for the the sake of itself.
When it comes to winners and losers, though, I guess it all comes down to when you take the score.
Have a great Tuesday, and set a little good free in the world. Every glimmer counts.
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