Vultures feeding on corpses lying abandoned in alleyway after bloody rioting between Hindus and Muslims. Hindu/Muslim Riots - India '46 (Photo LIFE Magazine)From Fabius Maximus:
Many people who have neither traveled through the third world nor read Martin van Creveld’s new book, Culture of War, did not take this seriously:
“He can’t be bought, bullied or negotiated with… some people just want to see the world burn.”
— Alfred (Michael Caine) speaking of the Joker, in The Dark Knight (2008)
What would they make of this insight in the CIA? Perhaps their reaction would be like that of critic James Bowman:
Are there such men? Conceivably. But history affords no example of them, outside of comic books and the movies, attaining the sort of power it would take actually to burn the world, or even any very significant part of it.
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My Comment: Since the Rwanda Genocide, I have always wanted to write an essay on the psychology and mind-set of people who have developed (in a very short period of time) an overwhelming desire to commit mass murder on another group/tribe of people.
Fabius Maximus has written a good essay here.