Inhuman Events

In the course of inhuman events, sometimes a people are faced with an imposing dilemma, or dilemmas, and the way in which they choose to react to that trying test determines the way in which history will remember them. The baby boomer generation was faced with twin problems, the Vietnam war, and the application of civil rights to everyone equally. Looking back on that time with the benefit of hindsight, despite a few shortcomings, many people met the burden that the circumstance of the day forced them to bear. In our time, we have many problems, and many threats that are all to real and grave, some of them from forces abroad, and others by people right here in the USA. Unfortunately, no swath of the population is willing to stand up and put themselves in the way of these unholy juggernauts. Look at just a few of today’s crises. We have let yet another African genocide continue on unimpeded. We have the US in a disastrous war of aggression in Iraq. This country’s other war, in Afghanistan, is now facing the very real possibility that the Taliban may eventually triumph. The calls to do something about catastrophic global climate change remain unheeded. A country that literally enslaves its citizens, and puts them in concentration camps for mere suspicion of sedition, has been allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, and repeatedly threaten a litany of other countries. The guarantees of liberty that define this country are being eaten away from within by people overreacting to a perceived terroristic threat. I do not understand why people are so apathetic to such senseless perversion of the human condition.