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Everyone that tells him/herself a story, can use that story to justify crime. Defender of the underdogs. Saviour of the home-country from the foreign hordes. In
by InDubioProRubio 2y ago
Everyone that tells him/herself a story, can use that story to justify crime.
Defender of the underdogs.
Saviour of the home-country from the foreign hordes.
In every story, there is idealisation and demonisation, a giving up of complexity and the moral horror justifications of fairy tales.
- bjornsing 2y agoPerhaps. But it takes a lot of story telling to be able to spend your days voting for higher taxes on law-abiding citizens, and your nights helping the worst in society evade those taxes…