The lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbors mined, spirited away, killed. Different versions of this horror have happened again and again in history.

 

 They’re still happening in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor, Israel  wherever one group of people permits its leaders to convince them that for their own protection, for the safety of their families and the security of their country, they must get their enemies, those alien others who until now were their neighbors.

 

 

 I don’t believe we can do anything at all without side effects — also known as unintended consequences. Those consequences may be beneficial or harmful.

 

 

All that you touch/You Change

All that you Change/Changes you

The only lasting truth/Is Change

God/Is Change

 

“A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” by Octavia E. Butler – Seven Good Things