The Barrow

All things desire to return to a state of balance. The further out of balance a circumstance is forced, the more explosive this return to balance will eventually be.

Take, for example, our aversion to participation in violence in a personal level. This aversion comes from a good place, of course, but through our endeavors to remove violence wholesale from the human experience, we have outsourced it instead to machines or otherwise have distributed the responsibility over a wide enough body of individuals that its weight is never felt by the human soul. In these circumstances, unspeakable evil is now possible – things which were unthinkable when warriors faced each other on the field. Now, instead, someone presses a button and a drone blows up a hospital.

Because we were too afraid to pick up swords, we now point Apocalypse at one another.