“Whoever fights monsters...”
There is a quote that has been alluded to at times in the threads about pedophilia and blood and the WT Society’s attempts at spin doctoring and revisionism. I felt it would be useful to read the whole quote as contained in Bartlett. It is from Nietzsche’s “Human, All To Human”:
“Whoever fights Monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a Monster. And when you look long into an Abyss, the Abyss also looks into you.”
Anyone who abuses a child is a Monster. And any one who covers-up and protects such a Monster is one by association. Those who ‘spin doctor’ the death of children into an event of faith and obedience are Monsters of the first order also.
Anger against such Monsters is, to use Nietzsche’s title, ‘human, all to human’. Such anger, as has been pointed out in some recent threads, can be very positive – helping to spur people to take action. Yet uncontrolled anger can metamorphose into hate. And hate is a very corrosive emotion that can damage the ‘Hater’ as much as the ‘Hatee’.
IMHO this is the Abyss that Nietzsche is warning against, allowing hatred of the Monster to overwhelm us.
Interestingly, a footnote to the above quote in ‘Bartlett’ referred to a Walt Kelly 1970 Pogo cartoon (a favorite of mine) that had this caption:
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I hope that none of us are drawn into that Abyss and become our own enemy.
My ‘Quack’ for the day.