Assessing the Public Temper

The world is not a place of anguished

moral desolation, we are assured by

psychologists recently publishing their

studies, where research has established

to their satisfaction that world news of a

dismal nature highlighting the atrocities

committed by psychopaths on an unwary

public has a blighting effect on sensitive

minds while if such news is tempered by

the presence of morally elevating acts of

kindness by others, that bleak mood is nicely

moderated, convincing the empathetic that

it is but a meager few that commit acts of

senseless violence, amongst the greater balance 

of a law-abiding public. One may therefore 

conclude the world is a good place overall 

quite cheerful news. Somehow, however

failing to incorporate a much wider view of

the world on a different plane, one where no

public outcry of anger and horror convinced

governments at war with the Third Reich

that forceful actions must be taken to prevent

the deliberate annihilation of millions of lives

of children and adults targeted for death as

unfit to live, a decree whose wild success in

the deaths of six million Jews still fails to

register in the disinterested minds of the

global public whose attention was focused

elsewhere in the past and remains so now.