HOLOCAUST

Are we looking down on fanatics now for looking down on us as they kill?

Are we feigning surprise at hate in their souls, comfortable in our basking left or right of their extremes, where good people hang out?

Are we like them in hating, peacefully?

We yell curses, bloodcurdling insults that only those on high can spout on them below. We point gunless fingers at people we consider low and bad, our hands busy applauding hatemongers, downsayers, real ugly pundits who pour it out daily in print, on screen, with sound.

Are we born to hate?

Like others, we fear the fear of fears in hating alone. One against the mob dies alone, hated for hating so, looked down upon, no longer up somewhere stumbling in hate, looking down on us, to kill.

Do we hate in groups?

The talking, writing people memorialize the killer's sacrifice of both victims and self, daily spewing hate, mourning even the burning hate of the one who killed and will die the quick way or linger in a dying that lasts for life.

Killing is the ultimate brave act, they holler, midst their insane gulpings for breathing hate, canonizing the killer for bravery out of conviction and daring to do what they urge us to do, alone or in groups: Let us go forth and kill those on whom we look down.

The killer and those exhorting the killer's killing holocaust one person at a time. They see themselves on high as celebrants of sacrificial offerings for the good of themselves. Their world is to be made in their image and likeness. The world of hate.

Do killers holocaust themselves, holocausting?

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Holocaust,
n. [from the Oxford English Dictionary]

a. F. holocauste (12th c.), ad. late L. holocaustum, Gr. holos - whole + kaustos - burnt]

1. A sacrifice wholly consumed by fire; a whole burnt offering.

2. transf. and fig.

a. A complete sacrifice or offering.

b. A sacrifice on a large scale.

c. Complete consumption by fire, or that which is so consumed; complete destruction, esp. of a large number of persons; a great slaughter or massacre.

d. the Holocaust: the mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis in the war of 1939–1945.

Also used transf., of the similar fate of other groups; and attrib.
Hence "holocaust"
v. trans., to offer as a holocaust;
"holocaustal," "holocaustic" adjs., belonging to or of the nature of a holocaust.

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