Rusty Bertrand on Nostr: "The years we have just gone through have killed something in us. And that something ...

"The years we have just gone through have killed something in us. And that something is the old confidence man had in himself, which always led him to believe that he could elicit human reactions from another man if he spoke to him in the language of humanity.

We have seen men lie, degrade, kill, deport, torture - and each time it was not possible to persuade those who did these things not to do them, because they were sure of themselves and because one cannot persuade an abstraction, i.e. the representative of an ideology.

Mankind's dialogue has just come to an end. And, naturally, a man who can't be persuaded is a man to be feared".

Albert Camus, "The Century of Fear"
(article published in "Combat", 1948)