Lock Down!

Our high school is locked down!  Parents are advised that no one has been injured and students will be released in groups.  It is such a sad day.

We have reached a place where most children do not have to die from disease or hunger, but a blatant disregard for people is growing.

No one is guilty.  Everyone is right and righteous.  Everyone is only doing what their God tells them is right.  Everyone has a reason for what he or she does.  The world would be so much better if we could just get rid of the riff raff.  You know who they are, all those people who don’t believe what you do, or who didn’t happen to be born in your neighborhood, or social strata, because god knows, if you were a truly good person you would be just like me.  What goes around comes around.

In fact, it is the duty of some higher ups to purge our country of those people who don’t fit in, who are not perfect, who don’t look like those people on television who never seem to work because they are innately wealthy while the poor go around doing drugs and stealing and getting raped.

Is it any wonder our children are growing up believing that the way to solve problems is by killing people and bullying them?  It’s what they are taught by elitist parents and politicians and the extremes of modern media.  Find a scapegoat and do the world a favor!

We are still a very primitive culture, one that believes in sacrifices and revenge, in righteous wrath and brash actions.  Eventually everyone, or someone they love, will be the outcast, the scapegoat, the witch, or commie, or tree hugger, or Typhoid Mary.  And perhaps then, one by one, they will learn how much injustice there really is.

Today I wait, eager to hear from my granddaughter, to know she is really safe and sound in a school where she goes to learn about this world she lives in.