Today’s News — The Events We Experience Today.
While great disaster is taking place, all around us, – one of today’s headline stories is about this “An Australian documentary maker has convinced several young people to appear in a reality television programme in which they auction their virginity to the highest bidder.”
What is one to say? What is humanity, humankind, becoming? Is this fun? Is it humorous?
Have daily events been worse, more banal, more evil, more vicious? Yes, of course they have.
Just think, in the summer of 1945, infantry from the West and the East were confronting an inhumanity which was worse, one would hope, than that of the expressions of inhumanity of previous ages and generations — the engineered and societily accepted genocide of millions of civilized peoples who were friends and neighbors. Germany became a machine of death. It became an institution by which friends, neighbors, lovers, loved ones, the innocent, the important, the human were ruthlessly murdered. It is hard to imagine this nation, which had become so idealistic and in many ways pure, had become a machine by which millions of innocents were mercilessly murdered — young, old, children, infants, grandparents, mothers, righteous, innocents – and driven to camps and gas chambers. It is unimaginable. Is it about to happen again?