Murderers lurk among us. Throngs of dark-hearted neighbors share dark dreams about what they would like to do.
When one reads: “If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” the instinctive reaction is to wonder “What bitter, unhappy person that?”
It does, and does not, come as a surprise to realize that England’s Prince Philip described that he feels this way about his neighbors.
Furthering the bewilderment, we realize that Prince Philip believes himself to be saying something intelligent. He feels that he is “enlightened”, and wishes to let people know that he is so enlightened that he wants many, or most, of them to be dead.
Prince Philip has no real power. He must be angry that his life is, basically, a charade; one made even more meaningless because his wife won’t give him any real power. It is easy to satisfy oneself with being “the power behind the throne”. It is impossible to be satisfied “wearing a costume near the throne”.
Like most people angered because they are do not have the power over those around them that their untrammeled vanity would like, Prince Philip has embraced the bitter person’s newest excuse for murder. Environmentalism is as popular among today’s angry as Communism was to the fuming fringe in earlier generations. Environmentalism is the bitter person’s newest excuse for murder.
Environmentalism gives him all the cover he needs to say that he’d like to kill as many people as he wants. If he said that without the respectability of being an environmentalist, he’d just be another homicidal maniac. He gets away with such repulsive, vicious thoughts because environmentalism is the bitter person’s newest excuse for murder.
