Why This

The world today feels to be in a sorry and con­temptible state. In every domain of indi­vid­ual and orga­ni­za­tional inter­course it's as if peo­ple, even whole nations, have cho­sen to selec­tively for­get or, worse, ignore the lessons of the first half of the 20^th Cen­tury. They have for­got­ten the scores of mil­lions killed and maimed and all the human trea­sure turned to ash. Human­ity has become indif­fer­ent, even inured, to the cost and con­se­quence of such hate-​fueled hor­ror, and every­where is turn­ing its back not only on pro­gres­sive notions of tol­er­ance, com­pro­mise, and respect, but even on com­monly revered tran­scul­tural char­ac­ter traits like courage, fair­ness, decency, integrity, faith­ful­ness, and hon­esty. Cru­elty and vio­lence have become jus­ti­fied nor­mal behav­ior, espe­cially among the so-​called con­ser­v­a­tive right of the world—even in the United States, where we claim to know bet­ter. The Cru­saders, Cos­sacks, and Brown­shirts have returned.

This all just pisses me off beyond words.

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