Punditry

Our hearts are broken tonight and the punditry will begin.  My voice is only one of millions.   Yet it is mine and I have to speak.  And here is what I think...

We have a rot at the very core of our culture.  It goes beyond gun control, beyond liberal ,beyond conservative, beyond constitutions, and beyond 2nd amendments.  Simply put, we are a society that has lost empathy and are in love with violence.  We have stopped seeing our fellow human beings as just that; our fellow human begins.  Look at how we speak about each other.   “they” are conservatives!  “they” are liberals! “they” are homosexual! “they” are evangelical!  “they” are atheists!  “they” are aliens!  “they” are taking our jobs and “they” are evil and “they” are the other and we hate them for it.  In reality, we are fellow human souls sharing our time together on this fragile little planet.  But we can barely look our neighbor in the eye on an elevator or check out line.

In the immediate face of tragedy, we wake up from our carefully guarded isolation.  We give to telethons, give up our cans of soup and blankets.   We send them prayers (do we really do that?)  Then we segregate ourselves again and scream at each other in traffic and think “i hate people!”   

We love violence, we lack empathy and we are armed.  This cannot end well.  

That is what my broken heart and lone voice has to say tonight.