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"It’s as if everyone wants to wash their hands of us – like Pontius Pilate."

“The West won the world, not by the superiority of its ideas, or values or ideas… but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence.
Westerners often forget this fact;
Non westerners never do.”

—Samuel. P. Huntington
American political scientist, advisor and academic (1927-2008) via @lyndseydoob.bsky.social

Bumper sticker.

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   Then the unmitigated dark —Edna St Vincent Millay

unmitigated night
as quiet as they come
where news & chaos chime
in some whale’s gut

close imperfect dark
axis a-tilt
i feel whirl in my heart
its promise & its bilk

mind at once cast
on tides opaque & thick
prefers to such mist
unexpurgated black

Saddam & Rowena.