I wish I had a person out there I could blame everything on. I wish I believed in an omnipresent Trotsky force who worked on me in a subliminal way, making me do all the awful things I do. I wish I had a scapegoat. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to justify your bullshit miserable existence if you had a scapegoat like Trotsky? Because then you never have to look within, you never have to ask: “Is what I am doing the right thing?”, you never have to question your own motives, you never have to question your behavior.<\/p>\n
Point the finger. Trotsky did it!<\/p>\n
Trotsky ended up being almost like Stalin’s imaginary friend. You know, that imaginary friend some of us had as kids, the ones you could blame stuff on. “I didn’t spill my milk! My imaginary friend did it!” In Stalin’s view Trotsky could be everywhere at the same time. Trotsky’s tentacles reached far and wide. He was omnipotent, omnipresent … he directed counter-revolutionary forces from afar. If he actually had been responsible for everything he was blamed for, he honestly would have been the greatest most powerful Superhero ever invented. He could leap tall buildings in a single bound. He could turn manure into gold with a wave of his hand. He could THINK something, and someone thousands of miles away in the outer reaches of Siberia could FEEL it, could FEEL Trotsky’s thoughts, and then proceed to blow up coal mines in a traitorous frenzy. Trotsky could orchestrate plots and sabotage from hiding places all over Europe, from exile. TROTSKY IS EVERYWHERE. He is the shared bogeyman.<\/p>\n
Again, some of the stuff I’m reading would actually be funny (the “blame my invisible friend” theory came to me this morning) – if the consequences of it all hadn’t been so evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wish I had a person out there I could blame everything on. I wish I believed in an omnipresent Trotsky force who worked on me in a subliminal way, making me do all the awful things I do. I … Continue reading