hate has driven humans to some of its greatest heights of discovery, art and enlightenment. What did a deep instilled racial hatred acheive? Both world wars, and therefore the jet engine, radio communication, computers and atomic power. What did the peace and love hippy movement achieve? massive pubes and the popularity of Volkswagen campers. Love and serenity can fuck right off.
(, Sun 8 Nov 2009, 22:18, archived)
and your grasp of world history seems to have slipped somewhat in this post
(, Sun 8 Nov 2009, 22:19, archived)
``In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
--Orson Welles, in the Third Man
(, Sun 8 Nov 2009, 22:34, archived)