Inhumanity and Imbalance
Without empathy and dignity, we are on a collision course
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
—Erich Fromm, 1941
We’re now almost a week out from the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare by a vigilante who was seemingly distraught about the draconian policies of that company.
The shock and horror of the murder itself was jarring. Headlines and breaking news declared that an executive had been gunned down in front of a New York City hotel. Then the video footage was released, putting realism to what was previously only pictured in the mind.
The reaction online was another brutal visit from reality, with all corners of the internet celebrating the assassin, creating a folk hero out of him, and fawning over images of him.
The writers of Black Mirror couldn’t create a more perfect dystopian-anarchic story line.
As one USA Today columnist wrote, “The callous disregard for a human life is alarming to witness.”
An emotiona…
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