Sadly, my initial response to this latest school shooting was much the same as my response to 9/11 -- mild surprize that it had taken so long, deep regret that it happened at all, grief that it will happen again. I do not see that we as a culture are willing to look into ourselves far enough to see how we make these things real.
Every time I hear someone describe an atrocity as, "senseless violence," I hurt inside -- violence is never senseless. There is always a cause, always a reason, and the real horror is that if we trace the causality back, we always find ourselves. But until we do, the atrocities continue; they must, because we are so closed off that atrocity is the only way left by which we allow our shadows to speak. We cry out to ourselves, even as we stifle ourselves; we kill ourselves even as we beg ourselves to realize that it is we who are killed.
I don't have an answer, but I strongly agree that we can't even begin to create one until we stop pointing fingers and start searching mirrors.
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Sadly, my initial response to this latest school shooting was much the same as my response to 9/11 -- mild surprize that it had taken so long, deep regret that it happened at all, grief that it will happen again. I do not see that we as a culture are willing to look into ourselves far enough to see how we make these things real.
Every time I hear someone describe an atrocity as, "senseless violence," I hurt inside -- violence is never senseless. There is always a cause, always a reason, and the real horror is that if we trace the causality back, we always find ourselves. But until we do, the atrocities continue; they must, because we are so closed off that atrocity is the only way left by which we allow our shadows to speak. We cry out to ourselves, even as we stifle ourselves; we kill ourselves even as we beg ourselves to realize that it is we who are killed.
I don't have an answer, but I strongly agree that we can't even begin to create one until we stop pointing fingers and start searching mirrors.
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This, still this. Even though all the awful things in the news have changed on the surface and have new names, still and always this.
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