I am sure that I am not the only one who has noticed that there are a significant number of countries where compassion has been in distinctly short supply of late. Where power and the power of fear have become the daily recipe of life. Where progression towards a fairer, kinder and more just world has gone into violent reverse.
I am also sure that I am not alone in remembering when global health threats emerged, there were certain definers of morality who determined that it was due to the liberalisation of attitudes, of behaviour, the loosening of previous rigid codes of conduct.
I have been listening carefully, watching the news feeds, and the bits of social media I can cope with, to see which particular degenerative sector would receive the blame for the latest global threat. No, not Trump. The corona virus.
Nothing. Not a word. No pounding declarations from the reactionary right that it is due to the distinct lack of clarity amongst some as to where on the sexual identification spectrum they exist. Or that it can be laid at the feet of a determined 17 year old Swede with a message for the world.
So I have to assume that the blame must lie elsewhere.
And, as reactionary populism seems to be the growth movement across the globe at present, it would appear that I have found the culprit.
It would seem that the earth, having expended significant effort previously to punish those who look to instigate positive change, has now decided that reversal to the dark ages deserves equal treatment.
The unfortunate thing about the outcome, irrespective of who is theoretically to blame, is that the same people suffer disproportionately – the old, the young, the poor.
At least this time maybe we can blame someone else. It won’t protect you, and it certainly won’t cure you any quicker, but at least it gives fair minded people a target for their coughs and wheezes.
Bless You!
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