Although it hardly qualifies as a startling or original insight, something occurred to me this morning as I was reading my Sunday Star. Two front page items, one about the bullied bus monitor, Karen Klein, the other about five-year-old Lovely Avelus a Haitian girl rescued from the ruble of the earthquake two years ago, reminded me of a truth that is regarded as inconvenient in some quarters: we are a communal species.
While the hard right tries to get us to think only of ourselves, the better to promote its agenda of selfish isolation and rampant consumerism, the two stories strongly help us to realize that when a face is put on human suffering, we respond with the magnanimity of a species that cares about each other.
It is a realization that our current ‘government’ does not want us to dwell upon as it promotes programs . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: What The Extreme Right Doesn’t Want Us To Think About
