Children as victims and perpetrators in totalitarian regimes

If you want a reminder that children are the most effective, lethal weapon a foul ideology can harness to carry out its aims, read this.  In many ways, it’s a companion to this.  And it explains my heartlessness when I wrote this.  The only way to save the children is to destroy the ideology, root and branch — even if that means killing those children whose souls have already been irreparably damaged.

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  1. This is related to Revolutionaries eating their own. I relate human wars to things like chemical reactions because for some weird reason, it has some very close correlations. A chemical reaction requires reagents and a catalyst to produce a product. There’s a controlling reagent, which is just the ingredient that gets used up the fastest. It controls how long the reaction goes, and how much product is produced.

    In this case, the thing limiting their chemical burning is the lives of their children. When they run out of bodies, then the reaction will stop. Totalitarianism + Children = Fire and Destruction. Eliminate Totalitarianism, and the cycle of violence stops. But if you don’t eliminate Tota, it will burn until the children are all dead.

    “What little I did know mostly came from seeing the film ‘The Killing Fields.’”

    I just made a post that had something to do with that, but mostly it was about the past. The Iraq Invasion that is, but the author was somehow connected to the Killing Fields.

    http://ymarsakar.blogspot.com/2006/07/democratiya-interview-putting-cruelty.html

    It’s a different way of looking at genocide, Iran or Cambodia. It rewinds all the way back to Iraq, and how we stopped the genocide there, and it talks about what really happened. Usually, there’s nothing important to talk about, but that post definitely had something worthwhile to talk about.

    Book’s show of ruthlessness is I believe, a supporting reason for why I say that true liberals are more ruthless than conservatives concerning enemies of freedom. People who care, cannot help but hate those who would willfully destroy what people cared for. The Democrats don’t really care, of course. But that doesn’t mean they will act kinder if America elects them to power. Bad idea, double bad idea if you read the interview on my blog.

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