I hope it fulfills the first thing it s supposed to do, which, as one reader described it, is to put you on a roller coaster that doesn t stop till it hits the bumpers. It also hopes, in passing, to think a bit about the rise of Nazism, how we got there, how we might get there again, the attractions and delusions of totalitarian arguments, the nature of Law and Chaos. We live in a world which depends upon contradiction and paradox for its very existence. Sometimes the best of us can take actions which result in terrible evil. Sometimes the worst of us do something which contributes some great good to humanity.
Intention is one thing.
Circumstances are another. We live in a modern world ruled by both luck and judgement and we have to embrace a whole set of ideas, if we are to survive well. Sometimes complexity can be represented by simplicity, but never by simplification. The era of simple ideas we have just left behind was the bloodiest we have known. Chaos theory shows us simplicity in complexity.