01-01-2022, 05:01 PM
It looks as if we have a list of
1. brutal or tyrannical leaders and their partners in crime
2. committers of massacres at any scale
3. racists and religious bigots
4. perverters of justice
5. mobsters
6. terrorists
7. serial, mass, and spree killers
8. corrupt political and commercial leaders
9. rapists and child molesters
10. traitors (at least to benign regimes). I doubt that anyone is going to mention the Stauffenberg clique that, had it been successful in overthrowing Satan Incarnate, would have shortened the Second World War and the Holocaust.
We have plenty of characters, some quite colorfully evil (like Oskar Dirlewanger) to overpopulate a sequel of Dante's Inferno. We have a wide variety of offenders by ethnicity and religious heritage.
I can think of what would happen to Arnold Rothstein and Chick Gandil (Black Sox Scandal) in a Inferno under the inspiration of Dante Aligheri: they would forever be clubbed by baseball bats and hit by baseball pitches. OK, baseball came into existence long after Dante was gone. Cecil Price and Alton Coleman might take turns lynching each other.
Missing so far are some "snakes under the cloth" who have fleeced believers to fuel their ostentatious lives People like Jimmy Swaggart have their defenders.
1. brutal or tyrannical leaders and their partners in crime
2. committers of massacres at any scale
3. racists and religious bigots
4. perverters of justice
5. mobsters
6. terrorists
7. serial, mass, and spree killers
8. corrupt political and commercial leaders
9. rapists and child molesters
10. traitors (at least to benign regimes). I doubt that anyone is going to mention the Stauffenberg clique that, had it been successful in overthrowing Satan Incarnate, would have shortened the Second World War and the Holocaust.
We have plenty of characters, some quite colorfully evil (like Oskar Dirlewanger) to overpopulate a sequel of Dante's Inferno. We have a wide variety of offenders by ethnicity and religious heritage.
I can think of what would happen to Arnold Rothstein and Chick Gandil (Black Sox Scandal) in a Inferno under the inspiration of Dante Aligheri: they would forever be clubbed by baseball bats and hit by baseball pitches. OK, baseball came into existence long after Dante was gone. Cecil Price and Alton Coleman might take turns lynching each other.
Missing so far are some "snakes under the cloth" who have fleeced believers to fuel their ostentatious lives People like Jimmy Swaggart have their defenders.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.