Rub your horns. Somewhere far away in Africa there is a turmoil. None of us know much about the country or its society, Even less we know about the ideology of all the sides in the conflict. Our primary source is our media and our pundits but haven't they disgraced themselves before on numerous occasions? One of the most ominous features of those creatures is their capability to ignore anything good if it comes from any place they label as bad. Like what good came from the Soviet Union, for instance? I mean something we can learn from? Nothing, according to the media. Even their space achievements were labeled as "desperate efforts.' Nothing good came from Chile and Yugoslavia, Venezuela and Iran, Libya and Syria. Nothing good comes from Byelorussia, ruled by the Hillary-defined " worst dictatorship in Europe'. If nothing good comes our of those places we surely have a right to rejoice if they screw up, right?
I was always wondering why don't we rejoice about natural disasters, say in China? Logic dictates that we should celebrate floods earthquakes and draught. We should raise our flags and dance on the streets when we hear of the dead, the maimed and burned alive. There is no difference for the evil joy. Our media loves it. They are ready to entertain and present us with the scenes of the happy people with guns shooting in the air and shouting greetings to America. How about piles of corpses, dead children and burning houses? That's small potatoes for the evil joy of freedom, isn't it?
People may confront me with a statement that there should be some ways to celebrate the real thing without the evil joy, something proper in happiness. There should be a definite criteria for this, the one which offers a positive experience. I would say yes, there is one. It is the sense of an honest effort.
Evil joy is based on dishonesty. There is always something fishy, something weird, something grotesque about the event which triggers that feeling. Analyze it, be honest with yourself and then you will see that in all those cases I described as well as in the numerous others horns grew up only on the heads of those who wanted it to happen. That's the key- evil joy was there before the chance came up to exhibit it; it was there all along.
Honest effort manifests itself in the feelings of empathy, warmth and self- restraint. Appreciation comes first and only after it - celebration. In 1945 amid the news about the defeat of the Nazi Germany how many people of that time celebrated Hitler's suicide? I bet no one. That joy was pure; who cared about the maniac? People celebrated life, not death.
I am concerned. Evil joy fills our air and poisons everyone. It is contagious. Please, people, do not succumb to it. No matter how seductive it seems, do not celebrate death in any form. Mourn. Get sad. Seek the honest effort. And if I wasn't an atheist I would say that Satan then wouldn't be able to take your soul. Remember, in the Old Testament Lord Himself reprimanded angels when they wanted to sing a song of joy witnessing the drowning of the Egyptian Army.
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