It is my increasingly jaundiced opinion that one 'Mad' is all we would need in the title today, because that Madness would be of an entirely more evil and destructive kind.
It would be the Madness of the poorly educated, the desperate, and the brutal. It would be the Madness of the opportunists who seek to harness the unhappiness of those three.
When I think of the magnitude of the tasks inherent in combating this Madness, I quail.
When I search for signs of thoughtfulness and composure in our leaders, I despair.
When I reach out to my fellow citizens I sometimes see things I would rather I had never seen.
Hope is not all lost. There have been worse, or at least equally bad, times for this world. And our (my) views of the leaders that got us through those times is rose-colored by historical edits of what was reality. In contrast, we see the here and now in ugly clarity.
So, long after most of us are gone from this world, I hope there will be people somewhere living peacefully. People who have hope of a better future for their children and a reasoned respect for their leaders - a respect earned by action.
I can only hope in this future, since this surely is not the case now ...
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Thank you for still having hope.
The source of my depressive post was a 'conversation' with a gentleman of my own age at the St Louis airport in which he espoused every closed-minded, uninformed, reactionary, opinion broadcast on Fox over the past decade. I didn't actually believe someone like him existed. This depressed me terribly, especially since no one within earshot of our discussion (he became loud) started throwing things at him.
But I retain hope that he was an aberrant sample of the population, and that he hasn't reproduced.
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