It's Memorial Day. I haven't felt like blogging for a while. But as today is a day of reflection and honor for those that have died, I took some time and did some reading. One passage says it perfectly and it's quoted here.
"...I think the world of USA is a world of crass, blind, overstimulated, phony, lying stupidity. The war in Asia slowly gets worse - and almost inane. The temper of the country is one of blindness, fat, self-satisfied, ruthless, mindless corruption. A lot of people feel uneasy about it but helpless to do anything against it. The rest are perfectly content with the rat race as it is, and with its competitive, acquisitive, hurtling, souped-up drive into nowhere. A massively aimless, baseless, shrewd cockiness that simply exalts itself without purpose. The mindless orgasm in which there is no satisfaction, only spasm."
Thomas Merton May 27, 1967
I think Asia could be replaced by Iraq and its ditto 40 years later. Have we learned nothing?
