Is it my imagination, or are we an angrier and more unconcerned species than we were years ago? Nastier generally. More mean-spirited toward each other.
A fan throwing beer on a professional ball player. An entire city harboring a grudge for years against another fan who caught a foul ball at an inopportune time. An entire political party so enraged at having lost the Presidency that it will do just about anything to see his policies fail, even at the risk of damaging the country. Mortgage lenders in such heat to make their fortune on the backs of new homeowners that they deal a critical blow to our financial system? A train engineer who is talking to friends at the time of a fatal collision. An air traffic control supervisor out of the tower and his employee chatting with a girlfriend while a plane and a helicopter collide.
How many stories could you add to that list in the next few minutes?
Then there are the daily injustices perpetrated by kids with illegal guns. The almost delighted way they take human life...women, kids, the elderly...with little concern for the consequences. I suggested, seriously, this morning that we should consider establishing a Kevlar for Kids Fund for children in the neighborhoods where gangbangers rule.
Crooks are everywhere. Crimes personal to me. A burglary down the block with high school kids the perpetrators. My friend Joe held up at gunpoint while delivering sandwiches. Again, high schoolers holding the shotgun.
Every generation, when it reaches a certain age, looks at the world and thinks it's going to hell in a handbasket.
I guess it's my turn to make that observation.
What a shame.
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