Today marks 4 score and a year that I've been circling the Sun. So like that guy from State Farm, "I've seen a few things!" Not all of them good. Forinstance, out of curiosity I once Googled the events of my birthday, December 17, 1942: "Revealed: 6 Million Jews Exterminated," screamed the banner headlines.
There were to be many more atrocities and naughty behaviors unfolding during my hiatus here on Earth: Genocides, Wars, Massacres, Natural Disasters, and Man-made Catastrophes: Assassinations, Homicides, Fratricides, Matricides, Infanticides with a side of Revolutions, Lynchings, Arsons, Rapes, Robberies, Burglaries, Corruptions, Injustices, Bamboozlings--etc., all too numerous to remember, let alone mention--you get the picture.
So what's a body politic to do? Well, we've resurrected a grand old idea: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This seems to ring a bell--a Liberty Bell--for wasn't this the idea(l) embedded in the Declaration of Independence? Well, it happens that what was good for the goose in 1776 is too saucy for the American Eagle in 2023.
For a myriad of reasons, chief among them pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth--pick your deadly combination of cardinal sins--we have tossed ourselves overboard--and are now furiously treading water, floundering in a rising tide of ignorance, despair, purposelessness, and dare I say, "DEI deprivation." In other words, nothing's really changed in 81 years. Or has it been 8,100?
