metonymy4u

The brutality of our species never ceases to amaze me. Especially during this season of so called good will. Good will! It is often just another way of dressing up our ignorance of the suffering of others. A justification for our custom of treating the entire world as reserved uniquely for us – to be transformed according to our immediate habits. The question of suffering is the question of why, in this very moment, in this season of good cheer, some people are suffering more than others. And we roll right over that question like all others. At times I experience it as a season of unfathomable brutality.