Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Saturday 27 September 2014

Humanity

has shown
such an appetite for cruelty
and torture unique amongst the species
that it was the title of Stalin's
French newspaper-mouthpiece.
So it is deeply worrying
that the word is chosen even now
by the thoughtless (and 'humanitarian')
to imply tenderness, solicitude, self-sacrifice.

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