The horrific mauling to death of a pregnant woman in Paris by her boyfriend’s vicious dog and the ridiculous responses to this tragedy are the topic of the latest Dalrymple article over at The Epoch Times. Please note that there is a limit to the number of free articles one can view per month on the website.
But Ellul seems to have suffered from (or made others suffer from) a kind of motiveless aggression that floated free from any immediate provocation.
Where human beings are concerned, there is nothing new under the sun, and such motiveless aggression has probably always existed; but the question is not whether it has always existed, but whether it is more prevalent than it was in the recent past.