The Attraction

Steven Pinker

"As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the worlds ills as a definable group, it opens up the world to genocide."

THE ATTRACTION

There comes a day when our own judgement

Is defined by what some others tell

And groups of the vulnerable in desperation or fear

Are ripe for what the ideologues sell

Be it politics, religion, or education

It becomes easy to fall in step

With cunning orators or guilt mongers

There's so much baloney we will accept

Unfortunately peace is far too subtle

Than passionate cries for war and death

And people are more moved by ire

Hate is so easy to express

We'll never tune in to watch flowers grow

Or cross the street for handshakes and hugs

Yet the turmoil remains an attraction

Followers multiply like bugs

The attraction is the euphoria

The smell of another's blood

And it's the aggressive who gather the forces

Rather than the idle who stand for love

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