It is time to draw back the curtains
and peek at what we wish to hide!
I have found myself scavenging for a
hint of goodness! Savage killing makes me nauseous and I have always been
scared of war. Therefore the news of the dog abandoned at the train station
finding a home, the clip on Target employees helping out a young teenager with
his job interview or the article our good friend has written about his recent
mission, are examples of how I wish to greet the world each morning.
Today I woke up curious! How is it
that humans are capable of inhumanity? How is it that crime can be routinized,
recorded and replayed without revulsion? Is it certain societies alone that can
be lenient towards such evil manifestations? Are we safe from our own
barbarity? Has there been in written history, a continent that has not suffered
from such evil?
I cannot pretend to have an answer. I
cannot bear to share the grief of families that are stricken. It seems to me
that when the very first humans sat down contemplating human civilization they
might have passed onto us the laws, the codes, the routines and forgotten to
hand down their 'reflection'. The capacity to envision how individual life and
choices affect the whole. The capacity to imagine that crimes against the
plural will erode every individual around the globe and that atrocities against
a singular human asks for collective response from the whole.
It is perhaps time to bring in the
forgotten disciplines of judicial thinking, moot courts and philosophy into
everyday lessons, so that the thinkers of the past are not simply stoop
squatting ancestors who had nothing better to do but were men desiring a
society based upon reflective action. If the only thing we can influence
is that which is before us then we need to ensure that our children are not
memorizing rote facts but are reflecting upon critical distancing, moral
responsibility and disasters of blind obedience especially in times of war.
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