Paradox

History is replete
with tragic examples
of paradoxical
human inhumanity
foisted upon other
unwilling human beings.
In my early years,
the Hitler/Nazi effort
to obtain unattainable
Aryan racial purity
resulted in
the extermination
of six million people
in the Jewish Holocaust
of World War Two.
As I begin a seventh
decade in this body,
cultural breakdown,
adverse ideological,
political,
and ethnic factionalism,
societal limitations
of human rights,
and tyrannical denial
of freedom of choice
plague the world.
The paradox
of human inhumanity,
of unrelenting racial,
religious,
sexual,
or psychological abuse,
inflicted upon other
unwilling human beings
would appear to be
insoluble.
Nevertheless,
change is inevitable
in holonomic materiality.
And in human affairs.

- A.T. Williams

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