The news from Colorado is sickening. It is really news from the new America, this sliver of which happens to be part of the urban sprawl of Denver, a place as far removed from its once vestigial hitching posts (and other considerably less obscure signs of its frontier and Christian roots of a mere half century ago) as is New York, Chicago or any other 21st century American gotham.
On a certain level, one does become numb to such abominations after the likes of September 11, 2001, or most of the other perpetrations that were domestically grown: such as the then retch inducing events of Waco, Columbine, Oklahoma City, Binghamton, Virginia Tech. and many more. These holocausts, expressions of demonic delight, all produce over time, a certain ennui, despite their authors' self-proclamations of spectacular and imaginarily majestically performed evil. Much like pornographic images (and a constant stream of new ones) that the libidinally inflamed voyeur believes bring him joy and reliable promises of ecstatic paroxysyms of greater and greater lustful bliss, the mass murderer discovers (as does the observant member of the public) one way or another, that hell, as described in certain biblical passages, offers exquisitely delectable repasts that never satisfy. These "diners" in fact, begin to rot away while they become the meal: the apple of the eye of the gluttonous sinner contains the "worm that dieth not" as maggots and all other kinds of spiritual vermin win the day over these gourmands who imagine their stomachs full and their bodies well nourished, when starvation is their true destiny, much like the bottle that begins to suck from the alcoholic's gullet. Still, aside from the banality of these monstrous blowhards and homicidal dullards, another kind of boredom follows on the outgoing tide of their heinous deeds. It comes from the armies of modern day hand wringers who sweep down upon the populace after these atrocities and with the help of mass media, manage to trivialize the sufferings of the victims and their families with regurgitations (ad nauseum, of course) of the events, the speculated upon motives of the killers, the so-called human interest interviews of the "near miss" survivors and most offensively, from the ritualistic attempts by our age's secularists to "heal" and find "closure" via hordes of psychologists, social workers and Grief Counsellors (an actual job title). Endless talking heads on radio and television working their jaws overtime with few new insights and often just using the occasion to push political or social agendas like gun control, community programs and to contrive more laws that imagine men at last taming other men with no transcendent parties involved or ancient verities of right and wrong given any weight or value: these are the greater terrorists in our midst. Non-judgmental "dialogue", the endless chatter of relativism and suppositions that one can reach an accord with, and satisfactory understanding of, satanic and irrational forces: these predictable, uninteresting and most importantly, false ideas about the problem of human existence and sin (or the refusal to recognize the latter's reality), remain outrageous and at the same time frightfully tedious elements that hold sway in much if not most of American society today. A strange alliance, consciously or not, among the dastardly, soul-deadened sociopaths and inhuman automatons in our land together with the modern enablers who do not subscribe to the ancient caution: "have no truck with evil" is a more frightening reality than any carnage yet inflicted on our conflicted citizens. For to think and act as if a reason for or the cause of the monstrous acts can be determined, its full meaning processed and thoroughly dissected and thereby mastered in such a way as to prevent any repetition, is as foolhardy as to think we can control the movements of the sun, moon and stars. Sometimes there are no answers and the bogeyman must be accepted much like our forefathers on the frontier understood the reality of the literal wolf at their door or the threat of Indians, disease or famine. "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst" remains as good a guiding precept as any for those who love civilization and are not burdened with the delusional creed of the perfectibility of men.
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