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title: "A Future History of Vice"
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date: 2021-06-27T22:32:18Z
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tags: []
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topics: ["philosophy", "culture"]
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{{< fluid_imgs "the-vices|/img/vices.jpg|The Vices" >}}
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We now live in an era in which Pride is Sovereign, and his two concubines Vanity and Lust are his apostles amongst men of weak will.
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He is the inevitable successor to the rule of his brother Greed and his two accomplices, Sloth and Gluttony.
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Pride's rule will come to an end, eventually. But it will not be by succession. There is but one Sovereign of vice remaining, and he has no patience for seduction.
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When the rule of Wrath comes, we will beg for the return of the others, who at least offered the temporary mercies of worldly pleasure.
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We will beg for their return, because we have not the courage to beg for forgiveness from him who alone is granted the power to redeem.
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I have often wondered why cowardice is not among the capital sins - indeed, chief among them. For with courage, none of the other vices could have any purchase in the human soul; but without it, we are forever tossed on a stormy sea of vicious iniquity.
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