At times like these (and I'm speaking of this pervading atmosphere of fear and loathing, NOT a minor virus that is 99.9% survivable) it when we see people and institutions for who they really are. The would-be Nazis among us have revealed themselves.... so have the cowards, the obedient sheep, and the useful idiots.
I remember growing up in post-WWII America, my mother and father had both taken active roles in the war; my father a Navy Corpsman with the Marines in the Pacific, my mother working in Oak Ridge, TN, on the secret atomic bomb. We had this one guy in our community who had been a Conscientious Objector and sat out the war at home. My father always said he wasn't morally convicted about the war, he'd known the guy all his life.... he was a coward.
The man continued to live in our small community, and he carried that stigma for the rest of his life. The entire community knew he was a coward, which in those days was worse than being a leper.
So keep observing people and agencies in this time of moral, ethical, and intellectual challenge. We know now who they are, and yet more will be revealed. As Q said, they won't be able to walk down the street.
At times like these (and I'm speaking of this pervading atmosphere of fear and loathing, NOT a minor virus that is 99.9% survivable) it when we see people and institutions for who they really are. The would-be Nazis among us have revealed themselves.... so have the cowards, the obedient sheep, and the useful idiots.
I remember growing up in post-WWII America, my mother and father had both taken active roles in the war; my father a Navy Corpsman with the Marines in the Pacific, my mother working in Oak Ridge, TN, on the secret atomic bomb. We had this one guy in our community who had been a Conscientious Objector and sat out the war at home. My father always said he wasn't morally convicted about the war, he'd known the guy all his life.... he was a coward.
The man continued to live in our small community, and he carried that stigma for the rest of his life. The entire community knew he was a coward, which in those days was worse than being a leper.
So keep observing people and agencies in this time of moral, ethical, and intellectual challenge. We know now who they are, and yet more will be revealed. As Q said, they won't be able to walk down the street.