I Wish I Had Something Fascinating to Say

But, being that it's 8:15 and I've been awake since my usual 6:15, I must say I have nothing but brain fuzz going on. I did, however, see a program the other night about Pol Pot, the notorious Communist Ideologue/dictator from Cambodia. Man, I do love a program that teaches me something about a facet of the world I did not know about. And this was definitely a whole dose of new information for me. I really had no idea about the man or the depth of all that was involved with the Khmer Rouge. But dear sweet lord, do not mistake my enthusiasm for learning with praise for Pol Pot. A monster and megalomaniac this man was. So absorbed in his own rhetoric that he actually convinced himself that what the Khmer Rouge was doing was in some way acceptable AND not lacking in humanity. People like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein (and I'm sure many others we don't know as well, due to as yet unprofessed fame) are of a caliber of human that can only be categorized as terrifying. The ego, the ideology, and the faith in themselves as somehow righteous makes these individuals achieve terrifying results as well.

People often make the comparison of our species to a virus in that we take over, plague and infect everything until we lay waste to what we claim. But within our species, there are individuals who are just as virologic in nature. Scary stuff.