Guilty, As Charged

 

Why yes, now that you mention it 

the world has gone mad for we live

not in exciting times but in an excitable

era where mass hysteria is the order 

in which we cope, to function as best

we can in an atmosphere burdened with

fear and distrust, where incensed groups

clasp victimhood with great affection

close to their outraged affectation, in the

process conferring victimhood on all and

sundry for if they were once slaves then

penance should be equally shared among

all who descended from the slavers. Ancient

Greece quivers with indignation for even

their greatest of philosophers, among them

slaves, held sacred an implicit belief that 

some are born to nobility and others to be 

enslaved. No matter that modernity shudders 

at the very thought of bent and burdened backs

in service to others' whims of necessity. All

must bear the burden of man's inhumanity

to itself. And so society abases itself while

hoping to placate the rage of those whom

history and current political cowardice

has entitled to mob-roam dark streets and

burn and pillage, beat and threaten, the

accusers savagely intimidating their own

victims knowing polite dissent gains nothing 

wreaking havoc to find satisfaction and 

vindication in their claims, evidenced by

the wincing submission of society's suddenly 

less-privileged, beaten insensible, quiescent.