Kenneth McKendrick

We're going to hold you accountable for your crimes.

They just, you're a demon and you must be obliterated.

And unfortunately, when you look around the world, you see this happening, right?

You see people simply being obliterated.

You see horrible things happening to people all the time.

I'm not a historian of genocide and I'm not a historian of settlerism and colonialism, but I'm really interested in how we get to the point where we're able to identify something as evil.

And that's what I find really scary about the topic of evil is that Dracula is horrible and horrific.

And I love that because it's a horror novel and he's a horrible villain and that's great.

But the characters scare me more because they've empowered themselves to

to have no guilt, no shame, no doubt, no hesitation.

And those things are actually seen as weaknesses.

And that I find interesting, compelling, and certainly worth talking about.

Well, that would require a scale, right, of what is just and what is unjust.

And so where do we find the word justice?

Where do we find the word criminal?

Like, where do those terms come from and how do they get used?

How do they get used to vilify people?

Is this a corporate sham or is it something invented by grandma?

Or, you know, is this deep seated kind of thing that we have in our society and it's been with us for a long time?

And is that a good thing?