Freda is proud she didn't "stand on the sidelines". Well, she did stand on the sidelines so far as evolution and human progress is concerned: they passed her by. Although I'll never believe stark cruelty was ever part of our genetic endowment - it doesn't work. It's something learned, and passed off as strength and mastery, but it's really a delusional two-headed snake that bites and poisons the wielder. She responded to "bumps in the dark", never realizing she was it. What an appropriate and terrifying icon for the dark side of US and its history, a side they seem now completely immersed and drowning in.
If you're on the "mainline" in affairs of state, it shouldn't be holding an electric shock device, actual or metaphorical, and musing on the best ways to elicit the maximum pain. Sounds so US/West policy in Ukraine, doesn't it?
Freda is proud she didn't "stand on the sidelines". Well, she did stand on the sidelines so far as evolution and human progress is concerned: they passed her by. Although I'll never believe stark cruelty was ever part of our genetic endowment - it doesn't work. It's something learned, and passed off as strength and mastery, but it's really a delusional two-headed snake that bites and poisons the wielder. She responded to "bumps in the dark", never realizing she was it. What an appropriate and terrifying icon for the dark side of US and its history, a side they seem now completely immersed and drowning in.
If you're on the "mainline" in affairs of state, it shouldn't be holding an electric shock device, actual or metaphorical, and musing on the best ways to elicit the maximum pain. Sounds so US/West policy in Ukraine, doesn't it?