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  1. Greed

    Greed by kmls

    the heart is a void
    sucking greedily
    at anything around it

    a vain attempt
    to satisfy
    its eternal hunger

    until even the self
    is swallowed

    into the hollow cavern
    of its unending lust

    the person disappears

    and the dark virus remains

    the emptiness begins
    to curl back upon itself

    its bloody lips
    attacking
    in steady demise

    until all that remains
    is the ache
    of never enough.

    May 18, 1987 (rewritten June 2026)

    #1987 #addictionMetaphor #ChristianReflection #consumption #ContemplativePoetry #corruption #darkness #desire #Ego #emptiness #Greed #hollowHeart #humanCondition #hunger #inwardCollapse #lust #moralImagination #moralReflection #neverEnough #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #selfDestruction #Sin #soul #spiritualFormation #SpiritualHunger #SpiritualPoetry #void #WordPressTagsGreed #Writing
  2. A quotation from Homer

    My word, how mortals take the gods to task!
    All their afflictions come from us, we hear.
    And what of their own failings? Greed and folly
    double the suffering in the lot of man.
     
    [ὢ πόποι, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται.
    ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ’ ἔμμεναι· οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
    σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε’ ἔχουσιν.]

    Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
    The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 32ff (1.32) [Zeus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46564/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #accountability #blame #deflection #destiny #divinepunishment #divinewill #excuse #fate #freewill #gods #justdeserts #karma #misfortune #responsibility #selfdestruction #selfinflictedwound #troubles

  3. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

  4. @tafnn
    Republicans declare a fossil-fuel war of choice on Americans and the world as they pollute and burn us to all to hell.
    #selfdestruction #fossilfuels #pollution #madness
    Self Destruction - AI Follies
    youtube.com/shorts/3NaIS37VCPs

  5. The firing of Bondi clarifies a strategy for fighting Trump's fascism: Keep the pressure on those around Trump and force them to show him for the shitty fascist he is. Trump will do the destroying of the empire for us. Soon he'll have no allies left. #resist #fightfascism #selfdestruction

  6. this is not a coincidence. It says girls are things to be consumed by the #Patriarchy. A ressource to be capitalized on as they seize and control the means of (re)production. #paedophilia #self-destruction

  7. A quotation from James Howell

    Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

    James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία], or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings” (1659)

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/12025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #competition #conflict #cost #selfdefeating #selfdestruction

  8. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1838-01-27), Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois

    More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4216…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #danger #freedom #nationalsecurity #selfdestruction #selfdestructiveness #threat

  9. Hmm... Some "trickle up" reaction to Sir #TrumpVirus and his spew of destruction and idiocy...

    > 'Rattled' Trump allies flooding his chief of staff with 'panicked calls': report

    rawstory.com/trump-economic-ch

    #BrainSpurs #economics #tariffs #SelfDestruction #nihilism #confusion #psychopathology #economy

  10. A summary of the human species. Cartoon from last year - that I felt was a bit underappreciated, so I’m sharing it again :)

    #earth #humanity #selfdestruction

  11. Self-Destruction of Complex Systems: Communicative and Structural Aspects by Kirill Postoutenko, 2025

    This book is the first attempt to provide a general theory of self-destruction in complex systems applicable to natural, social and cultural phenomena.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #complexity
    #SelfDestruction

  12. Or, in short, putting (artificial) idiots into key positions just because they are cheap is the road to disaster. And humanity is eager to take that road.
    #AI #ArtificialIdiot #greed #lazyness #SelfDestruction

  13. @Jackiemauro @MikeF @CptSuperlative @Huntn00

    the only effect of not #voting is to be ignored

    #politicians look for people who vote, to sway them

    nobody sees "i'm not going to #vote" as an act of #power

    it's an act of #selfdestruction

    on all the issues that person cares about

    who is going to work through the dead inert weight of the miasma of toxic social, personality, and psychological issues that renders someone alienated?

    you *have* to vote

    that is your voice and your responsibility

  14. "I’ve never before seen so many Americans who actually hate America enough to support someone so determined to destroy it. It’s like a family watching their home burn inviting the arsonist standing beside them with gasoline and a lighter to run the Neighborhood Watch."

    ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #PoliticsofDestruction #ChaosAgents #SelfDestruction

    kareem.substack.com/p/trump-ad

  15. A quotation from Truman, Harry S:

    «
    Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/truman-harry-s/62469

    #quote #quotes #quotation #censorship #fear #meme #selfdestruction #thoughtcontrol #authoritarianism