You wake up in a news cycle that never sleeps. With a cup of coffee, you read what ‘doomcasters’ are saying about end-of-life scenarios appearing on the horizon. Now you are fully awake and wondering what to do with these high alert headlines? Do you let existential crisis into your life?
For those with main character syndrome, what occurs is not a lack of feeling, but a lack of understanding. Hindsight, foresight and insight are banished for the sake of a romanticized fantasy that places them at its center.
The obvious ones deserving a millstone necklace include financier pedophiles . . . but what about certain schoolteachers who turn their classrooms into a type of jihadi Madrasa, a religious school for the incubation of destructive mindsets?
When we hear someone say crazy things, we might say “Yeah, right” and shrug it off. But when a group of people say crazy things in concert and people agree with said crazy things, we wonder “What in the world is going on?”
The demonic chain of custody that maintains “by any means necessary” violence goes back to the day when Cain killed his brother Abel. Cain must have thought that’s the only way Abel is going to be stopped from being a living reminder of not getting the approval he thought he should have.