no.56 - The Bigger Demon

In my suggestion box today, I found an anonymous comment signed "the legion" urging me to abandon my petty grumblings and take on "the demon lurking three levels deeper".

Before I chuck down into the deeper soil and rage at the biggots, the homophobes, the killers, the holocausts, the ravaging of our planet, and the selfish manipulative human heart, I must tell you...

The bigger demon is here.

And the bigger demon is lurking in all those posts you think relate only to those who lead charmed lives.

The cruelty of those who prey on warped self-image is powered by the same unthinking engine of greed that has left a trail of casualties among the young women of America for the past forty years.

The thing that allows the Litterbug of Fayette to toss her trash out the window is the same sad failure of the imagination to see consequences that has nearly raped our planet to death.

The desperate need to believe in the irrational has billions of minds clinging to irrational and frequently dangerous modes of thought.

Perhaps my posts about beer trickery and wanting to share more of the world with my daughter are indulgences, but this blog is not Night, it is an exercise and it will have flaws.

As I "casually circle my shallow ring of hell complaining about friends I can't find on the internet" you should know that I am sad not to know my friend any longer. If I did not address the bigger demon, perhaps you should consider that not every demon is mine to offer.