Genet Tells All

Beware of those who traffic in rumors of villainy.  Their world is too simplistic to contain you.  This fact will be reason enough for them to debase your name in accusations.  They will do so first with laughter.  If this does not destroy your reputation, they will do so with their tears.  The world is crowded with stories of such coordinated infamy, history, mythology, fairy tale.  Good guys and bad guys have long battled over the heart of the world.  But a good man's integrity is determined by tests that he has never had to take; and a bad man's sins would be nothing within the revelations of another religion.  Those who cannot see nuance in others refuse to see contradiction in themselves.  The tenacity of this delusion affords them the luxury of hating without confessing the toxicity of hate.  In a dualistic paradigm, blame is an external that excuses them of their motivations.  If one believes in the devil, it is no longer necessary to look for humanity; the moral dilemmas assembled by real world feelings and circumstances are eclipsed by evil as a force.  And where evil is a force, the subtleties of human experience no longer matter. To the pawns in this dishonestly designed battle, their affiliation with the just cause (and both sides see themselves as warriors in the army of God) is a kind of fortunate accident that disguises the intrinsic egoism if not out right arrogance of their convictions.  In actuality, their is a fundamental cowardice in their facile world view.  The challenge of these real-world complications undermines their happiness by introducing ambiguity into action and word.