10/30/2024
Not every violent man is evil, and not every evil man must always have been or continue to be that way. In time every man has thoughts of and commits both violence and evil, although perhaps at different levels of severity. In all of my years on this earth no mortal human that has ever lived falls outside that general stereotype of the species. I have seen a lot of good men rise and fall. I have also seen a lot of evil men rise, and stay risen right up to their often-sudden end. Think Caligula, Hi**er, Mao, or the entire horde of ISIS. The kind of men whose insatiable appetites for violence and perversion bring thousands, millions, even tens of millions to the grave in sorrow for no more reason than the tyrant fancied a change of view out their bathroom window. For a man like that to change their being is an uncommon thing. Those few of the brotherhood of evil that do turn toward the light seldom survive both the shock to their own systems and the animus of their former brethren. Those that both succeed and survive, turn the strength that built their empires to tearing them down brick by brick, stone by stone, head by head. They are relentless in the hunt and merciless in their quest to purge the world of the evil they previously sowed.
I know such a man.
-Kharzai Ghiassi
Short stories, novellas, articles, writings, et cetera, from the Inner Mind of an Alaskan Mad Man. Click to read Basil Sands - Tales of the Bastard King, by Basil Sands, Tales and Talk, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
