America and Americans are becoming less kind. This unkindness seems to be spreading rapidly. In the past, if you were going to be unkind you had to be present with those you wanted to be unkind with. However, today unkindness is carried along in media and devices at an alarming rate. By this, I mean that media develops antagonistic ideas between us and then spreads those rapidly across our population and creates a certain level of hostility in us. As our media and devices have become more prevalent in culture so does this unkindness. It is like we have become a totalitarian culture leading rapidly to fascism, not as a political movement but as a cultural one. When I was younger peace and freedom were the basic drum beat of culture. Today it seems to be you must be perfectly aligned with me. What makes this so unsettling is if you are not aligned then it is not only okay to be unkind to you but necessary to the point of empowered mandates of unkindness.
I long to be free and be free indeed. Thank God that’s still possible.
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