The capacity for Evil

Very often I find myself wondering, wondering about the world, about life, about society. There will always be things in this world which will disturb us. No one can escape that fact of human nature. There will always be something that we hate about ourselves, whether it is war, politics, murder, violence, rape, etc. There will always be something there to make our stomachs turn because there is the ability for evil in all of us. Sometimes it takes a disaster to bring it out. Just today on the CNN website (www.cnn.com) you can find stories about looting in New Orleans, an astronauts son who plead guilty to possessing child porn, and more violence and suicide bombs in Iraq. It’s terrible to read, and yet as much as we hate it we love it. We are always willing to hear the scandals, the violence the tragedy, our country thrives on it. Just look at any new channel and you see it everyday. The only news program I’ve seen in a long time without any violence or horror stories is Sunday Morning on CBS. Although, take a look at their webpage and you’ll find that bane of our society rearing it’s head, racism. Claims that the color and poverty of those hardest hit by Katrina was the reason aid took so long. If it is true that had those people been white and upper class, there would have been no delay in their rescue. Then it goes on to say that not only was it their race and economical status that was cause for their discrimination, but their voting patterns too! The nerve of some cabinets. Ah but lets not forget how corrupt they can be, and usually are. Heck maybe the anarchy of New Orleans wasn’t that bad, other than the rioting and the violent looting. We can’t even all like anarchy because the strong often win. Human nature at it’s greatest, and we all want to hear more about it from the safety of our living rooms.

Bad news is everywhere and we have to deal with it, but do we have to be swamped in it?