One of the guilty pleasures I very much enjoy on social media, and they go by thousands of names, are sites with video clips of people behaving badly. No matter how cynical you are about our fellow travelers on the Big Blue Marble, all of these sites make your cynicism look cheerful.
I regard them all as 'car crash on the highway' material. I can't really look at them but I can't look away. I'm numbed by the ham-handedness of so many people, also realizing much of what I do probably strikes someone as exactly the same as that which I am condemning.
Do you sit there like I do, mesmerized by the images, wondering 'What were they thinking?' If so, this may not be quite as reassuring as I had hoped. By a mile or more.
Willful ignorance. Not just a national resource, a natural resource as well.
-bill kenny
2 comments:
Last May while I stood holding a sign for a minority candidate at a local polling place, a car driven by a respectable-looking middle-aged woman entered the parking lot. When she saw me, she flashed a white supremacy hand signal at me. Hate is alive and well in Norwich, but I think that this last election showed that most people in Norwich reject it.
I think you probably intended your observation to be in reaction to my posting for Wednesday as opposed to today. I fear the eradication of hate, and displays of it, is a much longer process than either of us would like, but it shouldn't keep us from getting up every morning and pushing the stone a little farther along the way. Thanks for sharing.
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