Take a step back and think of where our society stands at this point in history. We’ve seen the industrial revolution, the automotive revolution, the electrical revolution and the computer revolution.
I just read a story about a mother who said her 2-year-old son was bullied by a grown man. They were in a Wal-Mart store shopping and the little boy was wearing a pink headband. The man took the headband off the boy and cuffed him and said, “You’ll thank me later.”
City Councilman Mike Fagan is up in arms over bikini baristas. Bikini baristas are up in arms over Fagan’s newest proposal. The Councilman representing the 1st City Council District (U-District all the way up to Hillyard) wants to require a minimum clothing regulation or move to zoned “adult business” areas.
Tonight at 7 p.m. an Interfaith Memorial Service will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki three days later.
I was at the Saturday Coffee Talk (though late) discussion and the topic was self-righteous anger.
My experience is that anger has always led to violence and we (humankind) would be better served if we could find, and use, new ways of promulgating change than through using anger as the touch stone.