We make it thus

At the end of the powerful movie, The Mission, in which Cardinal Altamirano has been investigating what was happening in the battle between slave-trading Europeans and the Jesuit missionaries in South America, one of the slave traders says to him, "We must work in the world. The world is thus."

The cardinal, who has surrendered to the pressure of the powerful and wealthy, sadly responds, "No, Signor Hontar, thus we have made the world. Thus I have made it."

I think of this as I see the daily news. Thus we have made it. Thus I have made it.

Sad, really.