That’s the crux of the matter.

How can we? Why do we?

Because we are too inured to denial. To willful ignorance. To a sense of superiority. Creature comforts. Status quo. Unresolved issues regarding genocide of native Americans. The holocaust of slavery and continuing discrimination against people of color and minorities.

My fear is, what’s happening won’t end here. They’ll come knocking at many doors. Just like the nazis did in those terrible times.

Dissident voices are too diluted and scarce. Why are crowds not out on the streets of dc, demanding the return of a vestige of our erstwhile moral compass?

We are an embarrassingly unerudite nation. And full of hubris! The nerve, I tell you.

Consumerism is the god we worship and also our drug of choice. I’m so angry I could devour my mattress! I mean, how else to stifle my humanity? Rage. Impotence.

I was educated in the old country. And that education embraced philosophy, comparative religions, geography, ancient history, French, nursing as an elective, fine arts, English literature, math, biology, ethics, an hour of ‘morals period’ every day where we discussed righteousness, loyalty, discipline, compassion, concept of noblesse oblige and faith. It was a holistic approach, in other words so that we could make connections. It began in elementary school. By the time I reached university, I pretty much had a solid moral compass.

I still do.

Education in America sucks big time, to use an Americanism.