Just not necessarily on death row. Sooner or later, the USA will
have to recognize itself as the ultimate victim of the murder and
genocide it has perpetrated--if not by introspection, then by self-
destruction. History speaks too clearly to that. Unfortunately, as
Hegel noted, it seems that the only thing we learn from history,
is that we (the human race) learn *nothing* from history.
If the fascination with events like the Peterson trial, let alone
some of the reportedly vulgar, if not almost gleeful, reactions to
the jury's sentencing recommendation are any indicator, we in
the USA have become, collectively, no less bloodthirsty than
the many "terrorists" (at least, those rightly called so) that we
hunt in places far from home.
The whole thing resembles nothing else, so much as Roman
"bread and circuses": give the people their fill of food and enter-
tainment, and so keep them under the thumb of the mighty few.
To be quite frank, I find it disgusting, and degrading; but no
more so than the state of affairs anywhere else in the world.
Fundamentally, humanty, as a race, is a bunch of self-absorbed,
morally-despicable, awareness-averse infants. Fortunately, we,
individually, don't behave as badly as we do collectively, and
in this, I find some small measure of hope and comfort.
However, until we *all* recognize that we bear the burden of our
collective violence both corporately and *individually*, I don't
see much change happening, in our behavior as a race.
--
HadEnuf? |
