The idea that all evil is equal and evenly spread out, and no country and its representatives is worse than any other, is pure bogus. It derives from the idea of original sin- it's just the way we are and if we don't take control, sometimes employing the evil but natural tendencies we all have, well someone else will, with worse results. That's the story, but any kid of twelve that hasn't already been brain-washed could see through it. It's bad logic, and bad policy and the evidence is smacking us in the face -unless facing annihilation right now from several sources can be called the successful outcome of a successful policy going back at least from the end of WW II.
No, having "bad thoughts", usually about sex, is not in the category of supporting the Cold War, and the demonization of a country 28 million people of which died fighting Nazis the West encouraged by its demonization of that suffering country. But that's what I was told: "look into your own soul and its tiny confines, and let us take care of the big stuff" by my school and my church. That's what my country maintained as part of the Western Hemisphere: we will decide what is best for us and the world: just give us a mandate: sign on the dotted line.
And the same BS goes down, without blinking or blushing, right now: just the names China and Russia are enough to send chills down the backs of some people, sensitized as they have been, like Pavlov's dog. Poor things.
The idea that all evil is equal and evenly spread out, and no country and its representatives is worse than any other, is pure bogus. It derives from the idea of original sin- it's just the way we are and if we don't take control, sometimes employing the evil but natural tendencies we all have, well someone else will, with worse results. That's the story, but any kid of twelve that hasn't already been brain-washed could see through it. It's bad logic, and bad policy and the evidence is smacking us in the face -unless facing annihilation right now from several sources can be called the successful outcome of a successful policy going back at least from the end of WW II.
No, having "bad thoughts", usually about sex, is not in the category of supporting the Cold War, and the demonization of a country 28 million people of which died fighting Nazis the West encouraged by its demonization of that suffering country. But that's what I was told: "look into your own soul and its tiny confines, and let us take care of the big stuff" by my school and my church. That's what my country maintained as part of the Western Hemisphere: we will decide what is best for us and the world: just give us a mandate: sign on the dotted line.
And the same BS goes down, without blinking or blushing, right now: just the names China and Russia are enough to send chills down the backs of some people, sensitized as they have been, like Pavlov's dog. Poor things.