If you were writing Dante's Inferno, who are the three people in the center of the 9th circle?

[hunter]

65. Meh. I don't have any faith in the naratives of history.

Shit happens.

When the situation turns ugly it's always best to solve the problems, run away, or even die kicking and screaming before you pledge your allegiance to any tyrant.

Every tyrant any population has historically committed themselves to is, in some ways, a scapegoat. Hitler or Caesar or Stalin or Pol Pot would never have happened in societies that overwhelmingly said to authority, "Go fuck yourself, I'm not listening to you."

My ancestors mostly walked, sailed, or ran away from trouble as soon as they saw it brewing. That's how they ended up in Wild West U.S.A..

First, get on a boat. When you reach America, jump overboard swim and/or run as fast as you can. Fully half my ancestors, all clearly European, Irish, Catholic, Jewish, whatever, were "undocumented." Dead ends on the family genealogy. They just appeared in the yard one day, like a stray dog.

My wife's ancestors are largely Southwestern American Indian who fled to Mexico when the situation got ugly, and Irish and Scots Catholic who fled to the Americas when things got ugly.

A good number of my ancestor's pacifist Christian and "passive resistance" intellectual kin probably died along the way, in horrible ways, but then again, shit happens. There hasn't been any real shortage of aggressive sapient apes on this planet for at least one or two million years now. It's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas who deserve our respect.