Say the magic word

 

Fuzzy fuzzy

 

Siddhartha Mukherjee writes in 'The gene': The two theories of heredity may have been spectacularly opposite - the Nazis were as obsessed with the fixity of identity as the Soviets were with its complete pliability but the language of genes and inheritance was central to statehood and progress: it is as difficult to imagine Nazism without a belief in the indelibility of inheritance as it is to conceive of a Soviet state without a belief in its perfect erasure.

It's utterly fascinating to me how much large-scale evil actually has its origins in arguably well-intentioned, (even seemingly noble!) attempts at establishing large-scale good. Grandiose visions of obliterating pesky evil and restoring unambiguous good, nuance be damned. Toooo bad things are often messy, random and don't yield to neat categorization.

It's humbling to see extreme attempts at self-reform as a microcosm of these grander schemes; just as disastrous. Jekyll stay, Hyde go.

No Batman to save us from ourselves, ughhh 😵