a friends blog got me to thinking and I came up with this.
WORKER KILLED IN WAL-MART STAMPEDE ON BLACK FRIDAY.
I believe there are a few truths to be noted here....
Mob mentality has never changed. not since the dawn of time untill today. no matter if one is a saint or a sinner, Even the most highly intellectual and ethical have lost themselves to a powerful mob mentality, commit horrible atrocities. wreak havok, destroy, loot riot and rape, only to come to ones senses after the fact. all human nature is susceptible to this phenomenon, in fact it IS human nature. So i dont believe we have lost the meaning of love, happiness or family. Fact is, that horrible event that happened at the New York Walmart is who we are. It's what we do. It has happened countless of times over and over again in the past and will inevitably happen a million times over.
Not trying to be pessimistic, this is just fact, and reality. I believe our generation is no worse than the last. There is no theft, murder, rape, crime, sin, genocide that we could commit that would distinguish our generation as something far worse or more despicable than the people that have lived before us.
The beautiful most blessed notion to consider as well is for as great a capacity humans have for death and destruction, the opposite is also true. We are capable of incredible beautiful loving benevolence. It is not to be ignored. We create and give and love as equally as we do destroy. It's who we are. It's what we do. There is no benefit, charity, helping hand, unity of neighbors or country that could distinguish our generation as anything better than what those have already accomplished before us.
We create the magic of Christmas, and sometimes that is destroyed.
Generally I believe the wrongdoings and evil of this world is much more memorable and impressionable than good deeds. So naturally we are going to remember the Walmart New York stampede much more vividly than the soup kitchen across the street feeding the homeless during the holiday season.
There IS MAGIC. There IS GOOD. Just as much if not more than sin. The Shame of humanity is not that we are capable of and execute Sin. It's a Shame we just ignore and forget the compassion of humanity.