The Horror

Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights–Hel
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I woke in the middle of the night with case of the raging horrors. Why? Amongst other obvs bullshit I was steaming about these VERY similar words, which share a root but are otherwise unrelated.

Human
adjective
relating to or characteristic of people or human beings.
noun
a human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien. 

Humane
adjective
having or showing compassion or benevolence.

Inhumane
adjective
not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.

Humanity
A) the quality or condition of being human; human nature.
B) the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence.

So, a person may be human and NOT humane. Take the Republi/Fascist party (please) and their crime boss, the 72 year old (the 7 is silent) spoiled toddler. Apparently human and yet completely lacking in even one molecule of humanity.

Honestly, it's the whole lot of them – they’re no different than a pack of cannibalistic saltwater crocodiles. See Moscow Mitch, Tom let’s-buy-Greenland! Cotton, Lindsey Graham, Steve why-does-racism-have-such-a-bad-rep King, Gym Jordan and I could go on and on and on. Salty’s, in contrast, seem rational, laid back, caring, mature and warm.

The most profound trait of Republi/Fascism? Inhumanity. I’d say they’re demonic but, ya know, demons have standards.

While rereading Good Omens for the billionth time (I’m always finding brill shit I’d forgotten!) Crowley , the demon character:

"…had found it increasingly difficult to find anything demonic to do which showed up against the natural background of generalized (human) nastiness. There had been times, over the past millennium, when he’d felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there’s nothing we can do to them that they don’t do to themselves and they do things we’ve never even thought of, often involving electrodes. They’ve got what we lack. They’ve got imagination. And electricity, of course. One of them had written it, hadn’t he…”Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”"
~ Terry Pratchett

and then there’s this;

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
~ Neil Gaiman

I totally understand the desire to blame supernatural forces – the devil made me do it, it’s the devil in him; he’s NOT really like this, and shit. But here we are. THIS is humanity.

Well...and so is this and this and this and this! Easy to forget, living in this shattered democracy, that humanity's not all racist, greedheaded, vainglorious, demon-brained pukes.