What happens when they choose the "cleaner" one? The one who fits the ideal, whose surface appearance aligns with a person's notion of perfection, while dismissing the one who shows them the truth, unfiltered and real? When we demonize the truth because we do not like our own intentions known or motives questioned? We create an illusion of purity, but in reality, we end up living in a fragile facade, incapable of confronting the darker aspects of ourselves or the world around us, being the very thing we claimed righteousness over.
They call it good, they call it a victory over evil, not seeing the hypocrisy in that they call for persecution and extermination of whoever they deem a villain while claiming to stand for the very ideals they violate with every act of violence, and yet they do not claim themselves as violent, they claim it as salvation from the "devil" who is "evil." They label their violence as justice, ignoring the fact that in their quest to destroy what they call evil they become the very thing they claim to oppose, trapped in a cycle of self serving contradiction.
In their pursuit of "purity" they are the very force of destruction they claim to fight against, deluded by their own sense of superiority and moral certainty.
When we clean up the image of violence and call it righteous, we conveniently forget that when evil is called triumph, it provides satisfying moral clarity, yet the same people claiming victory remain willfully ignorant to the extermination they are contributing to all while justifying their actions as necessary or justified, never questioning the true cost of their supposed righteousness.
They build monuments to their own glory while ignoring the screams of those crushed beneath their feet and call it progress, willfully blind by putting a veil over their own eyes to the destruction they’ve woven into the fabric of their so called triumph over evil. Choosing to focus on the illusion of toxic positivity and salvation, convincing themselves that their actions are part of a greater good.
They preach that everything happens for a reason, that pain is simply a stepping stone to a brighter future, all while ignoring the suffering they perpetuate, and the extermination
In their quest for salvation they elevate themselves as saviors, ignoring the fact that true redemption comes from confronting the darkness they help create and in many cases, are within themselves.
They do not question their intentions to call for extermination or their own violence, because they refuse to see it as murderous or violent. Instead, they justify it as righteousness.
They are blind to the bloodshed, unable or unwilling to recognize the destruction that they themselves are, and it ravages everything it touches. Their minds are closed to the truth, locked in a cycle of self deception, where the lines between right and wrong become blurred beyond recognition.
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