Parentis

There is no love—and there is no worry—like that of a parent for their child.  Of any age.

Right Or Wrong, "The Strong"

It is a destructive human weakness, even more prevalent in men than women, to follow "the strong," blindly if necessary.  And to wave away or dismiss afterwards the grievous errors, illegalities, injustices, and destructive things they did.  The only focus seems to be this emotional fixation that they were “strong” and “tough.”

It would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic, but the same people afterwards are only too ready to condemn all the others in other places for doing much of the same thing.  Blind hypocrisy and lack of self-examination is far, far too common.

Disposable Labor Units

We burn out far too many of our good middle class professionals.  Use them up.  Take away their enthusiasm for life with the endless grind and needless change at work places severely under-labor staffed.  Then they get sick, or they “check out” mentally and emotionally and we lose their productivity. And those are the “lucky” ones who don’t get the pitiless boot.  And often, they die too early as well.  

DoI

As I reread all the Declaration of Independence reprinted in the newspaper yesterday, I had a thought:  How many people, in how many countries, that we have been in in the last 60 years, would read those words and think, “how bitterly ironic.”