Robert L. Dise

Listening to a litany of overlords and brutes through the millennia really brings home the futility of men's self-important and self-destructive need for absolute power. Their fragile egos can't let them exist in any kind of harmony; nope, they have to dominate, but they have no insight into how brief, silly and ultimately forgotten they are no matter how many of their "enemies" they slaughter. And of course women were mere property with which to barter and wheedle. I can only imagine the heights of achievement humans could have reached if this energy and zeal were put to things other than killing and the subjugation of other people. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Depressingly final.… (mais)