This rampage against the departments of government exposed for me just how deep and wide, how complex the mechanisms of ensuring justice, fairness, non-discrimination had become. In some ways, perhaps, we had become shackled by the complexity of negotiating all of these checks and balances against such injustices. However, in the process of unwinding them, we are returning to the era of vigilante justice of the wild, wild west. That fantasy we glorify in the movies will be exposed for the primitive, raw form of order it produced; hanging in the town square, posse's administering summary justice in places no witnesses exist, the exercise of the raw power of the gun, or which group has more of them in carrying out policy. I don't want to go back there. I don't want to live in a world where injustice AND justice are defined by a hail of bullets, one from the "black hats" and the next from the "White hats" in a world full of color-blind persons lining up with one camp or the other.
What a perfectly wonderful and refresingly erudite analysis of a completely dangerous situation. Thank you for enriching this conversation in such a positive manner.
This rampage against the departments of government exposed for me just how deep and wide, how complex the mechanisms of ensuring justice, fairness, non-discrimination had become. In some ways, perhaps, we had become shackled by the complexity of negotiating all of these checks and balances against such injustices. However, in the process of unwinding them, we are returning to the era of vigilante justice of the wild, wild west. That fantasy we glorify in the movies will be exposed for the primitive, raw form of order it produced; hanging in the town square, posse's administering summary justice in places no witnesses exist, the exercise of the raw power of the gun, or which group has more of them in carrying out policy. I don't want to go back there. I don't want to live in a world where injustice AND justice are defined by a hail of bullets, one from the "black hats" and the next from the "White hats" in a world full of color-blind persons lining up with one camp or the other.
What a perfectly wonderful and refresingly erudite analysis of a completely dangerous situation. Thank you for enriching this conversation in such a positive manner.
Wow!!! A new, thoughtful, powerful, and passionate voice in the quest for real truth and consequential remedial action.