Human Duality: Baked-in, Constant

Even just in the last 2 days, I’ve seen a hugely entertaining fantastic realization on video of a toy train rushing past glorious scenes and glasses of water perfectly tuned to many famous classical music melodies (Google: “Official World Record! Classical Music Medley played by a train-YouTube) and watched Rachel Maddow reporting on unspeakably dumb anti-vaxxers bathing in bleach and eating imported-from-Canada ‘Magic Dirt’ filled with arsenic and lead, feeding it themselves and even children.

[Shakespeare was (along with Homer, Dante and Chaucer) one of the first Western individuals who long understood the duality of human nature (seen in all his tragedies). A line of thought returned to in many works including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dickens’ novels, Lord of the Flies, The Grapes of Wrath, Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty-four to name but several, still-instructive key ones.]

Human capacity for good and evil ranging from the medical advancements and the examples of King, Mandela, and Teresa to the Holocaust and recurring penchants for hate, violence, corruption, and exploitation.

Both sides, now. You see examples every day. Our best and worst, constantly and recurringly.

On one side, selflessness, reason, common sense, knowledge, kindness, generosity, charity, sacrifice, healing, On the other, the human catalogue of mindless horror/s.

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