The Mark(ings) of Zorro

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What's the Matter with Kansas?

Saturday, April 19, 2003

by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

We are such a strange race
We are so strange. We produce individuals who create things of sublime grace and beauty--things which touch and illuminate the mind of God. And, at the same time, we produce individuals who plumb the depths of depravity and evil. It is not an uncommon occurance for people to sacrifice their lives while trying to protect/save the lives of others, and, yet, it is also not an uncommon occurance for people to harm and even kill those closest to them.

The Laci Peterson story from California is a case in point. Here a man is charged with killing his wife and unborn (but, at 8 months in term, viable) baby son. This baby was flesh of his flesh, and yet this man is accused of killing the infant. How do we produce such evil? And it is not just in this country that evil exists.

We are well aquainted with the horrors of the Holocaust and with the "ethnic cleansing" which sprang up in the Balkans of late. However, our ethnocentric press has not given the same attention to the savage butchery that has been going on in Africa over the past 20 years or so. We hear vaguely of the killings that happen in places like Nigeria, but it doesn't really impact our consciousness. It is much like the genocides that swept through Indochina (specifically Burma--I can never remember its "proper" name-Myanmar--and Cambodia). It would appear that all branches of the human species and all of our cultures are capable of producing both sublime beauty and vast evil. I hope and I pray that the part of us that is capable of producing things of beauty, be they physical or intellectual artifacts, and the ability to love will more than balance that part which is dark and evil.

Laci and Conner Peterson, may you both rest in peace along with the millions of innocents who have died by the violence on man in the recent past.

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