Revenge is the one thing most clearly absent from the Kingdom of Heaven.  Why then is it central and integral to life on earth?  Consider it.  Draw on literature.  Draw on Biblical lore.  Draw on what you know about sex, even in the Biblical sense.  Revenge is central.  It, not money, is the root of all violence.  (Violence serving as the substitute for evil in this ‘essay’).   Money is only an amplifier.  A [de]value added amplifier if you will, if you like post-modern marketing parlance and the general deconstruction of things.

Yes, revenge is integral to the great dysfunctional force and tendency of what we laughingly call functioning society.  Sick-in-the-head individuals, i.e. humans, project it onto all they survey (i.e. all they look upon, i.e. all they purportedly “see”).

It works like rain clouds:  individual drops attract and seed others.  Something turns.  Critical mass is reached.  Deluge and downpour ensue.  Something is alive and dead at the same time.  Call it quantum.  Call it Ishmail.  It is the lubricant, the precious oil, the value-enhancing natural resource, of the ways of man.

Consider it truly.  It creates enemies.  It feeds on fear.  It demands action.  It perpetuates violence as return for violence, eye-tooth for eye-tooth, red in tooth and nail.  Even where it largely does not exist, — (I’m thinking African-American society post-slavery, post-Jim Crow, post-civil rights let down and sell out after sell out). — Like I said, think again. Even where it largely doesn’t exist and where progression has gone on mostly peacefully, still the projection of a dangerous and revenge-minded “other” clearly exists and lives a thriving life as a terror and as a tangible fear that calls action or pre-emptive action or lack of empathy, with or without action.

Yes, revenge works like gathering rain clouds to violence.  And we live in perpetual monsoon season.  It doesn’t help, either, that in this so-called and ignorantly-considered “advanced” 21^st Century society, the revenge rain-cloud process is seeded by airplanes of the imagination spraying conspiratorial chemtrails of Q-Anon & Friends, media & anti-media alike.

Yes, I say.  Revenge seeds a critical mass of group-think to violence.  Over and over and over again.  It is the way of the world.

If I could change the world to make it more akin and in resemblance to the Kingdom of Heaven, I wouldn’t introduce something abstract and confusing as “love” (which gets complicated with clean or dirty-minded “sex” and with innocent or “guilty” curious wondering about how the angels do it and other things like (and unlike) that).  No, I wouldn’t improve the world that way.  I wouldn’t even try to achieve law and order (mostly because law and order are perverted and critically co-opted into an integral role, a catalyst within that vicious circle of revenge/violence).

If I could change the world to make it more akin and in resemblance to the Kingdom of Heaven, I also wouldn’t worry about changing over the representative guard of revenge-minded Anerican Congressmen and Senators.  For they are true representatives of the American ppl. [sic].  (You’d only replace one crew with a likewise and like-minded dysfunctional crew of other “representatives”, over and over again, ad nauseam).  I wouldn’t take other systems of governance and turn them into “capitalism” or republican representation either.  It is not in the governance that the problem exists.  It is in the revenge.

If I could change the world to make it more akin and in resemblance to the Kingdom of Heaven I would simply make revenge go away.

I realize that this would undermine western civilization and I realize that it is anti-American and anti-“Christian” as well, but so be it.

That’s how I would change the world.  But the world indeed won’t have it.

So, I’ll just work on my serenity instead.