‘There is something intoxicating about the possibility that morality is a paper-thin lie and barbarism is the truth of the human condition,” wrote Jackson Arn in The Hedgehog Review. This “truth” seems credible as we are hammered by the daily news.
My Turn: A self-evident truth amid uneasiness
Published: 3/4/2021 6:00:16 AM
My spouse and I live in an 800-square-foot, climate-controlled home in a white-privileged retirement community. We have plenty of food stored in the freezer and in the cupboards. We’ve received both doses of the COVID vaccine. Yet, my retirement life is uncomfortably disturbing.
My uneasiness is prompted by the daily reading of the
Monitor, the internet, and watching TV news while sitting in my comfortable Vermont Rocker. I’m constantly confronted with the contrast between my life and the stories of so many powerless, oppressed, threatened people living with the daily specter of suffering and an early death. The divide between us is abysmal.