Modestly awful people can save the world

When no good people are allowed to power

It’s the modestly awful that keeps hell at bay in favor of purgatory

Such as the person that stopped the inserucation on Jan 6th 2020

Such as the person who needs to tell Vin diesel they need to kill Vin diesel in the Fast and Furious Franchise.

We live a double life, civilized in scientific and technical matters, wild and primitive in the things of the soul. That we are no longer conscious of being primitive, makes our tamed kind of wildness all the more dangerous. — Hans Von Hentig

The late philosopher Rene Girard believed that this has always been true: since prehistoric times, the greatest threat to society has been a breakdown in cohesion. Theologian S. Mark Heim elegantly lays out Girard’s theis: “Particularly in its infancy, social life is a fragile shoot, fatally subject to plagues of rivalry and vengeance. In the absence of law or government, escalating cycles of retaliation are the original social disease. Without finding a way to treat it, human society can hardly begin.”

Only with modestly awful people can we hope for COHESION. to still exist. Without it , well let’s not say.