We’re always being told about kindness. That we should be kind to one another. And the system should be kind. But we know that kindness is cruelty – the greatest cruelty. An ethics of kindness! Tolerance! Mutual respect! Whereas what we need is mutual cruelty. Whereas what we need is brutal honesty.
Kindness: that’s the official philosophy of these times. You hear of nothing else: kindness. The desire for more kindness. To increase kindness! Is that what it’s come to: kindness? Is this how civilization ends: in kindness? In agreeableness?
Work in Progress 