I skimmed over today's headlines. We have once again made human life trivial, almost to the likings of Romanesque flavor though we lack the public indulging in communal executions. There are the exceptions like the lunatic fringe that publicly display a vigilant countdown for repellent murderers' deaths. When did we turn into such a revolting species that regards existence as passe? When did become acceptable to go outside civic duties and civil circumscription that we set up to make our species civil and different from the savage? Waiting for answers to such fundamental questions is not contrary to the wait for the Apocalyptic Horsemen. Suppose we justify a Robespierre reorganization of the dim, addle minded, greedy, contemptuous, degenerative, pathologically/intellectually defunct that lack the where-with-all to tie their shoes?
The sycophants that pollute our nation's capital? Would it be an acceptable form of eugenics? Are we setting up a rendezvous with the hangman of our sense and sensibility?
This isn't a simple giving up of the inclination to hid behind niceties or false modesty. It's a monumental disgrace of decency on the platform of global awareness. Is it just a lacking of manners or the clear statement that empathy is no longer in our playbooks? Only apathy. Where did we learn such grotesque behavior that lacks compassion? So impoverished of sacred clemency. It's hard not to tsk at it all. Benevolence shouldn't be a virtue. Shylock's soliloquy is universal yet it's only something taught in passing if one takes the elective Shakespeare Lit. class offered in some high schools. We must have depleted our sources. You used to have to drill too far to lift some crude compassion that once bubbled up outside of the holiday season as well as within. Guile, callow people just turn a blind eye I guess.
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