Egocentric publications
Letter of the day(aug 16): London Riots
One must wonder if it is sheer egocentric cognition that perpetuates letters such as these. No doubt, the said letter comes from a Midwestern state across the pond, but surely the disregard for the people in London is startling.
It is admirable that a letter such as this one, can find avenue to be published. The first amendment right of the States, is a respectable virtue, if it isn’t one that I fully endorse. (often it fails as a shining beacon, for the intellectual immaturity of its users) However, for a newspaper of the magnitude of the StarTribune, to select and publish a letter which begs the appropriateness of title, ‘London Riots’” and comes off insensitive to the mileu of events,-to publish it as a featured letter for the day, surely a disgrace of journalistic standards?
In the ensuing chaos, there are lots to be asked. The largest civil disobediance in Britain in a long while, questions must be asked. The social subtext must be examined, the political balance must be looked upon. The morality of society must be discoursed.
These are ideas and trains which span humanity the world over. Thoughts that transcend nationality, it could happen to any civilisation, sometime in the future, now, or perhaps even has happened.
How then, is it, that this letter chooses to ignore these turn of events and dive into the murky plunge pools of the crashed economy. To return once more to the themepark of banker blame.
I can only imagine that a society, engulfed in its self and its own perceptions tinted by deepseated prejudices for blame, regarding its own failings, would embrace a letter such as this. Self serving in a time when contructive support and sympathy should be lent towards a civilsation which was once grand and now is splintering.
If ever, one had indignation at the intellectual maturity of a letter, it should be directed at this one.
