about fear

There was a bombing at Moscow Airport today. It’s no use to say it’s horrible. Some correspondent in ‘Telediario” said, ‘Moskovites are already used to such things”. I wonder if someone can really get used to SUCH things.

The most terrifying about it is to realize that one is completely helpless.

It reminded me of a movie triptych called ‘Tokyo!’, one part of which, called “Merde” is about a man-like creature that started ‘shaking’ the city peering out of the sewers onto the streets of Tokyo and scaring people with its disfigured ugly face, claw-like long-nailed hands, and eerie inexplicable actions. Once it finds explosives underground and comes out peacefully throwing around grenades like some benevolent man would throw around candies.

Finally, it was arrested and sentenced to hanging. But then something strange happened: when its head is already in the loop and the support is knocked from under its feet – it vanishes into the thin air.

Ironically, it’s a vicious circle. Evil inspires hatred, thus itself.

Evil cannot be eliminated by its own means. Nor can it be eliminated by fear.