Thursday, February 02, 2006
Social Suicide
Privilege is a hard thing to relinquish. Like other poisonous addictions, it corrupts the soul, confuses the mind, and warps one's perspective.
Manifestations of privilege: dominion theology; racial supremacy; ethnic ascendancy--as evidenced in America, Israel, South Africa, and Northern Ireland--can become such virulent forms of social disease, that only extraordinary interventions can save the host body politic from complete annihilation.
In the United States, at present, this public health battle is consuming such vast social resources that the epidemic is already foreclosing our ability to prevent additional epidemics in the future. Malign neglect of health, education, and the welfare of the underprivileged by those infected with the virus of hate and love of power threatens our very survival as a country and species.
Acquiescing to rule by such clearly unsound minds is nothing less than suicidal.
Manifestations of privilege: dominion theology; racial supremacy; ethnic ascendancy--as evidenced in America, Israel, South Africa, and Northern Ireland--can become such virulent forms of social disease, that only extraordinary interventions can save the host body politic from complete annihilation.
In the United States, at present, this public health battle is consuming such vast social resources that the epidemic is already foreclosing our ability to prevent additional epidemics in the future. Malign neglect of health, education, and the welfare of the underprivileged by those infected with the virus of hate and love of power threatens our very survival as a country and species.
Acquiescing to rule by such clearly unsound minds is nothing less than suicidal.
