NAGGING QUESTIONS FOR A SATURDAY AFTERNOON


when a good man is hard to find.

What does it say about us a people that it took a dying man's self-indulgent cliché-fest of a lecture, and the ego-stroking, maudlin media attention that followed, to inspire millions of people to live better, more fulfilling lives? And what will it say about us when, a year or two from now, precious few of those millions will still be so inspired, forgetting once more the lessons they've already learned so many times before?

I suppose it says, to paraphrase Flannery O'Connor's Misfit, that we would have been a good people, if there'd been someone there to die for us every minute of our lives.

Posted: Sat - July 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM          

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