User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/I Shook Hands with a Monster/@comment-7673575-20180605112739

News bring us the version of events so watered down they may as well be water itself.

True violence in Ex-Yugoslavia stopped nearly 30 years ago, but the hatred is still palpable. And it's a hatred for absolutely no reason. Who started it? Doesn't really matter. People died. And for what? So that their children and grandchildren actually have the reason to hate each other?

SFR Yugoslavia is being spat at on daily basis. But in reality, it was a good thing. Only did it fail because others wanted it to fail. And out of what was a land of love and tollerance, a land of hard work but bountiful harvest, land that united diversity and created its own path by giving the finger to both great forces at the time; out of it, this wolffuckery was born. People hate each other because they are told it's the right way. Old alliances are forgotten. And while there is no true violence, it constantly bubbles beneath the surface of what we gracefully call "civilization."

Empy, thank you for sharing this with us. It was impactful, but it's an impact that needs to happen. People must know that the world isn't as peaceful as we are being told. That if nothing is done, we will have the unique honour of being the first and probably the only species that ended up exterminating itself.