Friday, November 11, 2011

Layer upon layer of civilizational rot

Which layer represents the rot's most advanced staged? The act(s) that Sandusky performed on the boy(s) he overpowered? The silence of witnesses? The attempts by Paterno and the school administration to make the whole thing go away quietly? The rioting by entitlement-mentality students who felt gypped out of getting to go to a school with a legend for a football coach?

We have descended so far from such now-seemingly-innocuous harbingers as "no shirt no shoes no service." The gossamer-thin partition between human nobility and the chaos of unbridled savagery may have frayed irreparably.

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