orders is not the death penalty. if you think it would be very obvious, but suddenly it doesn t seem obvious. you ll read that some plumber choked to death from covid alone in a hospital room and you ll watch social media celebrate his death. he wasn t vaccinated, he deserved it. some preacher in florida will die leaving behind not just a grieving family, but skeptical of the covid vaccine. it suddenly his death becomes a morality play for the rest of us. this is what you get! this is the most corrosive possible way to approach the deaths of fellow americans. the president joined in and scolded the people, the decent americans as they die alone and ankeny. how dare they take up the space in our hospitals, biden says. people who deserves to live for her to pause for a moment and think about that.
if you think it would be very obvious, but suddenly it doesn t seem obvious. you ll read that some plumber in wichita is choked to death from covid alone in a hospital room and you ll watch social media celebrate his death. he wasn t vaccinated, he deserved it. some preacher in florida will die leaving behind not just a grieving family, but skeptical of the covid vaccine. suddenly his death becomes a morality play for the rest of us. this is what you get! this is the most corrosive possible way to approach the deaths of fellow americans. the president joined in and scolded the people, the decent americans as they die alone and in agony. how dare they take up the space in our hospitals, biden says. they are occupying the beds of worthy patients. people who deserves to live for her to pause for a moment and think about that.
In England circa 1380, a troupe of traveling actors makes its way across the medieval landscape, where to go 20 miles from home was to enter a world of strangers. In London at about the same time, Geoffrey Chaucer was writing about another group on the road pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. His Knight, learning from the journey, declared: "This world is but a thoroughfare full of woe,
And we be pilgrims, passing to and fro.
Death is an end to every worldly sore." The actors arrive at much the same conclusion in "The Reckoning," when they arrive at a village where a murder trial is under way. A mute woman (Elvira Minguez) has been charged with the death of a local boy and been sentenced to death as a witch. The actors by their nature are more worldly and sophisticated than the village folk, and after questioning the woman through sign language, they begin to doubt her guilt. It is at first no affair of theirs, however, and they unload their props and costumes
the era for the first time, america felt an obligation to social morality. you had to have a sense that in god s hand was involved in social relations, fighting racism and so forth so in many ways, 60s addict this idea of social morality to our culture and it transformed the whole racial issue in america into something of a morality play. a plate of guilt and against innocence and we are still in that. in that format, guilt is what america, specifically what white america is supposed to go for
on a story we covered last week about a man in missouri name kevin strickland. in the seventies, 1978 when he was 18 years old he was prosecuted for capital murder, in a terrible crime, shooting deaths of three people in missouri. he was convicted, largely on the strength of a single eyewitness who said it was him. kevin strickland is still in prison today he turned 62 years old yesterday, he s been there again since he was a teenager, he s serving life in prison. but his case is now something like out of a fable or a morality play. he has been taint his innocence since day one, he has said consistently that he did not commit that crime. he s not alone in saying that though. in 2009, the one eye witness in the case, completely recanted her testimony, she said she had been pressured by the police to wrongfully accused him. she says it wasn t him and she now wants nothing more than to see him out of jail. that was the lone eyewitness.