I saw a meme the other day that really struck home for me. I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but the gist was: “Nobody has ever killed a witch.”
Witches don’t exist. Witches are the thing you hunt for when you want someone to blame for all the things you think are wrong in the world. Because you can catch that witch. You can torture and kill it to make it pay for all the evils you think you’ve suffered. But witches don’t exist, so you have to find a person. A person just outside of normal enough that you can convince someone else they’re a witch. Once others are convinced they’ll help you come up with all kinds of justifications for why the witch needs to be punished and killed. Everyone knows that witches are evil, and everyone loves a good witch hunt, because getting rid of witches means you’re making the world a better place.
I saw a meme the other day that really struck home for me. I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but the gist was: “Nobody has ever killed a witch.”
Witches don’t exist. Witches are the thing you hunt for when you want someone to blame for all the things you think are wrong in the world. Because you can catch that witch. You can torture and kill it to make it pay for all the evils you think you’ve suffered. But witches don’t exist, so you have to find a person. A person just outside of normal enough that you can convince someone else they’re a witch. Once others are convinced they’ll help you come up with all kinds of justifications for why the witch needs to be punished and killed. Everyone knows that witches are evil, and everyone loves a good witch hunt, because getting rid of witches means you’re making the world a better place.
But witches don’t exist.