Is this how it begins anew? Are we at the beginning of the next revolution of a slowly turning wheel in time where enough of the past has been forgotten that we can stumble into repeating failures. Have we totally lost our awareness of how dangerous the world really is?
What the hell has happened to our collective memory? Here is a sampling of the major digital news outlets for today, Pearl Harbor Day
Not a word. Not a photo. The collapse of our national memory puts me in mind of the 18th Sayings in the Gospel of Thomas:
The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us how our end will be.”
Jesus said, “Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”
So, ‘the day that will live in infamy’ existed only as long as our ADD’d society could hold the thought. I’m guessing there’s a new terrible event just over the horizon, something we swear we’ll never forget and then let it also slip into the dustbin of history.
As an afterthought it occurs that there are also slices of our society that are being stripped from our collective conscious by the relentless march of time. Some may take comfort in a little reminder of our simpler life by Shorty and Slim: