Steinbeck on Monsters
Steinbeck on Monsters
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Steinbeck on Monsters
John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden, ‘I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.’
He wrote about the misshapen and the horrible. Their deformities were once considered visible punishments for concealed sins.
When he wrote about mental and physical monsters and about those with malformed souls, he wrote a truth that is true today and will be tomorrow and has been true since man arrived.
We have seen these monsters. We see them today. These malformed souls. Sometimes they are ordinary men or women. Sometimes a politician. Politicians are ordinary men and women. Not kings. Not gods. Some think they are kings. Some believe it. They die like all of us.
In 2026, we see these malformed souls. These kings. We see what they did and do. They killed and starved children in Gaza. They bombed a school in Iran and killed the children inside it. They abducted children in Ukraine.
They spent and will spend trillions of dollars on bombs and bullets. They call it defence. They do not spend trillions on food and medicine and water for people who need them. Those people die. The nation comes first. The myth of ‘the Nation.’
Steinbeck wrote that line as a question. We know the answer. We see the answer.