I woke up this morning feeling not maudlin, but I think the word is disappointed. I thought about it, and feel that in a just world, something like me short piece on Goodness would be posted on every newspaper in America. I say this not to brag, not because I think I’m all that, but for a much simpler reason: in a just world, in a good world, people would seek out, be hungry for, all that is good and light and beautiful. They would reject all that is dark, ugly and violent. They would seek harmony, poetry, connection.
Look at our mass culture. It is possible to find the good, but only after sifting through nearly everything else. Look at the headlines in any newspaper, and you will find someone disagreeing someone else, where NEITHER person really has the courage of convictions won through a hard and honest self reflective process, or who possesses the character to change their minds with new facts. What you seem are vain, self serving, largely stupid people nitter-nattering around about something close to nothing.