All the talk about love, charity and happiness sort of falls short when I look at what people really say and do and appear to want.
It’s a good gig, this loving goodness and kindness, but it appears that it is also just that for a great many people. Otherwise no one would care about most of the stuff I see listed under the guise of news.
A man sings the Star Spangled Banner at a sports event and it is billed as the absolute worst. I listened to it and found it better than many of the mangled, “creative” versions I’ve heard so many times before.
The lives and loves of anyone in the public eye are scrutinized for any possible foible or flaw regardless of whatever else is going on.
It is the person who does the most dastardly deed who is apparently most news worthy.
I’d like to think all of this is because we just take goodness for granted, or assume that good things, or at least, worthy things, people are doing are so well known and understood we don’t want or need to know about them, but I know that isn’t true.
We are the same people who sat in the Coliseums of the past and flocked to hangings, burnings and eviscerations. Frightening little beasts.
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