The Devil's Snot (1)

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Humans love their own reason far too much.

So they are always mistaken.

They think that what they have fashioned with their own hands will remain forever in their grasp.

But reason and rationality are more fragile than one might think.

They can be bent by even a passing touch of madness, and distorted at will by greed.

People are reluctant to believe that fact.

Who would willingly accept that the fire they kindled could burn down their own house?

There was a reason I had suddenly fallen into this tedious, high-minded contemplation.

‘This really has to go well…….’...