Those who go against justice are like wild beasts to other men. With sharp teeth and sweaty, shivering skin. The harshness of strong men, their animal nature, which nothing can stop because they are dominated by their passions, is that of The Genealogy of Morals, when Nietzsche states that evil birds love lambs, “because there is nothing more delicious than a tender lamb.”
This principle of forced saturation of one’s own being, this revelry to the point of bursting, eating everything, digesting everything, destroying everything, could be mistaken by some unhappy people for some kind of greatness, like towering above ordinary mortals. But the light is given to tyrants by mediocrities. The demigod, the superman, needs crowds of cheering mediocrities to praise and support him.
The painful signs of all this can now be seen in the world. With the barriers of justice broken, every concept of the common good shattered, every norm broken to set free the spirit of the beast, we are losing what little civilization we have achieved and returning to Cain killing Abel. We brought this on ourselves. Too many centuries trying to exchange good for evil. Or discussing evil as the cause of good as if it were a game of society. And no one is saved because everyone, for whatever good they have done, has mixed in the lethal bile of hubris.
Cain, with his dark blood, chews on a murderous passion to be the only one, the only God, the new Yahweh. But he is just a poor criminal, a petty man, a slave to his obsession: a fattened goose stuffed with food, whose fellow criminals remember only his fatty liver when they taste it at Christmas, recalling his weaknesses and delusions with vulgar laughter. Only Christ can save us from such horror. Only infinite purity can change these crazy heads from within, only Christ can awaken us from the obsession with evil, from this endless series of horror scenes one after the other that are destroying us. Only Christ can restore silence to souls inflamed by the noise of life. To sympathize, to alleviate, and to elevate the purest thoughts.