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Wheat & Weeds - The Task Before Us

It is a bleak picture, and Camus was criticized for painting it, but as he wrote in reply, “there is no other life possible for a man deprived of God, and all men are [now] in that position.” But Camus was not the first European to draw this picture; he was preceded by Nietzsche who (see Zarathustra’s “Prologue”) provided us with an account of human life in that godless and “brave new world.” It will be a comfortable world–rather like that promised by the European Union–where men will “have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night,” but no love, no longing, no striving, no hope, no gods or ideals, no politics (”too burdensome”), no passions (especially no anger), only “a regard for health.” To this list, Camus rightly added, no death penalty.

Why? Because no passions, no caring, and therefore no demand for justice.

There. Next time some godless pinko liberal hippy gets on your case for supporting the death penalty, just look at him with mixed sadness and pity and say, “You just don’t care enough.”