Well, I sort of agree on the karma issue. I just think that karma is, by no means, sure. It's all about luck, chance and serendipity. Say you're having a bad day and snap at some nice person for no good reason at all, never even knowing that they were having a bad year themselves and, in that moment, you pushed them over the edge. You might run into them again or you may not. You might, in your old age, find yourself helpless and in the care of this mother's child, who suffered the 'kick the dog' syndrome that you helped to cause. Or, of course, you might not. Some people are just lucky that way.
People who enjoy evil do it more frequently and closer to home and are, therefore, more likely to step in their own shit.
That's why I hated writing obs more, even, than I hated being a newcomer. I'd sort of slid by without either contradicting the doctrine enough to get myself in big trouble or really taking a very active role in fucking w/ others. I remember thinking that I had to come up w/ something negative about someone once in awhile or staff would think I was being too weak or cliquing (
not "clicking" !!!) w/ people. But I damned sure wanted to get out!
I hope I never really fucked anybody up. I tried not to.
the war on drugs is but one manifestation, albeit a very dramatic one, of the great moral contests of our age -- the struggle between two diametrically opposed images of man: between man as responsible moral agent, 'condemned' to freedom, benefiting and suffering from the consequences of his actions; and man as irresponsible child, unfit for freedom, 'protected' from its risks by agents of the omnicompetent state.
--Thomas Szasz