Comfort as a Lie: The Hidden Cost of a Broken World

Our comfort often hides invisible violence, racial, economic, spiritual. Baldwin, Le Guin, and Guénon all point to a deeper truth: systems reward blindness, and "good people" participate in evil without seeing it. When the system no longer needs anyone, not even the privileged, the illusion collapses. The real question: do we want comfort if it's built on someone else's suffering?