There was a drive-by shooting on this block last night. A car pulled up to the middle of the intersection and fired two shots into a bar on the corner 100 feet down the road. No one was hurt.
I do not know how to comprehend this – but it’s why I’m leaving.
My peers comprehend it by making a joke out of it, by using humor to come to terms with something that they cannot otherwise think about. Much of pop culture America does this nowadays, too. We have TV shows that draw on sexism for humor, racism for fun, and economic disparity for laughs. Our ideals are taken silently away from us and then we struggle to buy them back for the rest of our lives. We struggle against the current to live a moral life, in attempt to live a peaceful life. This, it seems, is impossible. Suffering is all around us but we can’t seem to find the tools to come to terms with it – we can’t seem to win against the powers of immorality.
I’m sure many a great theorist has said this before.
We will stand up for morality and show others the Way.
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