All monsters are created; they don’t just happen.
There are all kinds of monsters: those created by greed, power, addiction, loneliness, prejudice, twisted genetics, dependency, indulgence, or any combination of poisons that feed its existence. Everyone’s lived a monster: their own or someone else’s. Maybe you’re one and don’t know it. The quirk all monsters have in common is that they’re able to walk past a mirror and not see what’s staring back.
The longer we go, the more monsters we’ll face. I’ve lived my share: the one I hid from as a kid, an invisible one that ate my parents, a blonde one with pale skin that lied love, a dark soft-voiced one that whispered in the ear of two friends and convinced them to end, and the one that gnaws at my soul that I’ve created through hope and indulgence.
Monsters can’t exist on their own: every one of them has a creator/enabler driven by good intentions, paving the road to hell. The 700 pound mass of humanity, imprisoned in his bed, didn’t get from there to here without a loving enabler shoveling Big Macs, Cheetos, and Ring Dings in his face like a mother robin. Similarly, social and political monsters can’t exist without spoiled offerings of the well-intentioned.
Ego inspired Doctor Frankenstein. His motivation was true enough; giving life to the dead. Immortality. He didn’t create his “perfect specimen” to wreak destruction on the countryside. But, like the mad doctor, creator/enablers are blinded by one-sided vision for the future and are incapable of running the mental gamut of “what-if’s” by which monster-dodgers survive.
As if facing personal monsters isn’t daunting enough, we’re now witnessing the creation of a social beast the likes of which my generation has never seen. We’re too new. Too misinformed. Too distracted.
The lessons of history, considered irrelevant by many, are no longer taught and are being suppressed and forgotten. Societal values are being lost to mob-thought veiled in righteous collective-courage. Manipulative guilt-projecting word salads, tossed with trend-concepts like systemic racism, virtue signaling, white privilege, wokeness, reimagining (anything), and critical race theory have been weaponized to suppress truth and avoid root cause analysis.
European enablers have lived the broiling stench of Its birth several times, feeding their perfect specimen with human misery. Their history bears the scars of a thousand monsters and without exception every one has soiled its path with pain and anguish.
But all monsters have a common vulnerability; they have insatiable appetites but can’t feed themselves. Nourished by enablers, they gorge on anger and weakness and shit blame, fouling everywhere they roam.
There is only one way to stop a monster: take away the poison on which it feeds. If you are or have ever been in the grasp of a monster you’ll understand the challenge. Enablers will not willingly allow their creation to starve; because without their perfect specimen they are irrelevant.
Take a hard look at society’s enablers and consider what they offer humanity in the absence of their monster. There will always be enablers. There will always be monsters. Turn your back on both.
