In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other. We are typically ready to believe that our ways, our beliefs, our religion, our politics are better than theirs, or that our God-given rights trump theirs or that our interests require defensive or pre-emptive strikes against them. Convictions are infectious, and people can make others convinced of almost anything. There are always people telling us what we want, how they will provide it, and what we should believe. Goya believed that many of the follies of mankind resulted from the “sleep of reason”.
…One of the series of satires etched by the Spanish painter Goya is entitled “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”.
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