Like the Tree Cut Down

There are suspicions that simple stupidity can be as harmful as cruelty. Cruelty, among us, is often associated with intelligence, especially when it is verbal or ideological cruelty, or when it is exercised by those serial killers who enjoy so much intellectual credit in film and television. European privileged minds considered that the massacres of Lenin, Stalin and Mao were painfully necessary accidents in the becoming of liberation from hist…