We are now in the New Age of Mendacity. Self-deception is not required, but it helps. For example, Trump thinks he is a lion. The Press thinks they are not jackals.
Epigenetics of Despair
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were recently arrested for attacking a police car with Molotov cocktails.
Both are attorneys. This should raise some serious questions.
Is the orderly legal function of the state seen, by its very agents, to be illegitimate? Is the education of the agents of the courts so inadequate, or the choosing of candidates of such so inadequate, that the citizenry has reason to fear them? And what laws can be broken with impunity? Are the rest of us able to break laws because of our political vision, or for some other reason we see as valid? If so, which ones?
Or, is it only some special people among us that have such privilege?
How does this lawlessness differ from the abusive lawlessness of the police they are protesting?
And, is the damage or failure of this community so great that even achieving the trappings of apparent success, that the rest of the culture admires, is inadequate? If so, what will substitute for the social and economic advances that previous cultures have viewed as their ambition and the evidence of their success?
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