A Tale of Two Pandemics, Dickens and Living Around the Coronavirus

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON MARCH 19, 2020

While in self-isolation I look outside my window onto the placid street, I see parked cars with a strange calm in the air, it’s still yet loud with silence.  Thoughts of my childhood and of the unknown come rushing to the forehead of my mind.  I’m in the forest, 7 years old and lost, but not lost, rather misplaced in my little world.  It’s a bizarre feeling of being right there and also right there, still looking out that window feeling like I’m getting lost in this place.  

The silence is broken, attention toward a new window rises in my mind, eclipsing the lost boy in the forest and the quiet outside world.  This window is filled with panic and chaos as some strangers warn about the end of the world while a marginal few attempt to remain calm.  Facts and figures.  Charts and diagrams.  Percentages and maps.  Controversies and contradictions.  Some experts are saying to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously like your life depends on it, yet others suggest that this will all blow over.  Some places are opening their parts of the world to the public, yet other places are locking everything up so tight, that you might be afraid they forget where they left all the keys.

I’m reminded of the first paragraph of Charles Dickens’ wonderful 1859 historical novel A Tale of Two Cities, that tells about the contrasts and comparisons between London and Paris during the French Revolution.  We’ve all read or heard this masterful opening at several points throughout our lives.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”

There is something so timeless about this passage that when I think of the current time we are all in, a time of conflict, a time of chaos and despair, we are also in a time of hope and a time of happiness.  Right now, we are in a time of extreme opposites, dividing, feeling like we are a universe apart without any in-betweens.

In these paradoxical times, is when we must find a middle ground and if we can’t, we must create new neuro-pathways in our brains to make that bridge.  We live in a technological age of enlightenment, yet we still live in a Bronze Age era of darkness and tyranny.  We live in a time of hope and a time of great despair.  We are at a turning point, we are on the brink of a revolution, but will that revolution be the best of times for us or the worst of times?  In this age of wisdom there is far too much foolishness downloading our time.  Do we want our eyes to be wide open in the light or our heads in the sands of darkness?  Do we want our children to grow up with freedom in a spring of hope or be left alone in a winter of despair?  Do we want a world we can all share, or do we want to go the other way....?

The Box within a Box: Isolating Ourselves from the Coronavirus

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON MARCH 17, 2020

What do we do when the world suddenly starts standing still?  What do we do when our box suddenly becomes smaller and smaller until it’s just you, in a room, in your head?  What do we do when we have time to stop and smell the roses?

Our Government wants us to socially distance ourselves from other people and self-isolate.  It’s all quite understandable really, this virus is rapidly spreading around the globe and needs to be contained.  We do this by not giving it anywhere to go, we suffocate it.  It dies out and we all go back to our lives the way they were before.  Problem solved?

We still must do something with our time after we’ve watched all we can watch on Netflix.  Isolation for some people is stress-free, a respite of time between the chaos of life in this modern world.  For others, isolation is a challenge because there might be an absence of distractions that ‘everyday’ life provides.

We are all submerged deep into a ubiquitous consumer culture where we all are chasing dreams that commercials hypnotized us to believe in.  The Coronavirus has lifted the veil of society and has exposed all its working parts for what they are.  Much in the same way Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz did, or Neo at the end of The Matrix.  The fabric that holds society and its structures together has been torn, exposing a weakness that greatly disturbs our fragile sense of security.    

Now we are all in a self-imposed form of solitary confinement, while our leaders scramble to kill this virus.  Our part is to stay calm and get out of the way.  Society has always overseen our mental programming, where most of us don’t know how to work it on our own.  We are marooned with our own thoughts and possibly a stranger looking back at us in the mirror.

This is the true virus that COVID – 19 has infected us all with.  Most of us don’t know ourselves because we’ve been always living the dreams of the Privileged, the true owners of it all.  We’ve been so distracted with TV, mobile phones, game show elections, and 40-hours a week unending jobs, that we haven’t really been able to stop and see through the facade of society.  Our ‘purposes’ have been suspended and what’s left is the fear of the unknown, and we hate the things we fear.

When will this be over?  When will I get my life back?  Will I be bankrupt when all is said and done?  This is what the ‘hell of isolation’ can feed the brain while it's kept in a box.  So how do we look on the brighter side of things without deluding ourselves?  The world is going to change one way or another because of this global shutdown.  Take this time while looking at those four walls and think, self-examine, and then re-imagine the possibilities of what our change can bring back to the world.   

The Problem with Modern Day Teenagers in a Digital World, Searching for Corporate Identity

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON JANUARY 23, 2015 - EDITED DECEMBER 26, 2021

Guilty pleasures, selling out and integrity have all but vanished from the ‘Like’ generations interface.  There is no longer anything to feel guilty about so the concept of selling out would be lost on most teens.  This digital age has ushered in with it a new type of pseudo-post-human person, an actual post-human isn't a human at all, more Alien-like with no attachment to this earth at all.  It also has extended the idea of the teenager beyond a decade of turning 20.  This Like generation has the same insecurities as teenagers did 30 years ago but now the differences are that most of them exist digitally, isolated and compacted for the young person to upload synaptically at an unprecedented rate.

The teenager is a 20th-century phenomenon, really just over half a century old.  Prior to that, children grew into adulthood without the teen-angst buffer.  It really wasn’t until after World War 2 that the teenager emerged.  Before that, a child got old enough to work and help out the family before they were 10 because that's what had to be done.  There was no time for lover’s lane, dinner, and a movie or sharing strawberry milkshakes while listening to Elvis Presley on the radio at the local soda shop, like what was enjoyed in the 1950s.

Then the 1960s kicked in and with it a whole New World Order that germinated in the ’50s, overtly surfaced.  Teenagers had parents earning money for their educations and for their after-school activities.  Some protested the war in Vietnam while others jumped on the acid train singing songs around campfires about freedom and rebellion.  Teenagers at this point, to their parents and to the established order, were somewhat of an annoyance, at least the ones that weren’t being fitted for corporate or government white-collar positions.  Many of the teenagers that had nothing really to offer to established-order were essentially sent off to Vietnam to be killed.  

The disillusionment of the 1970s kicked in where some young people checked out, smoking marijuana, growing their hair long to defy the establishment, listening to The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, and Led Zepplin, and keeping their heads down in the grass.  The war in Vietnam ended, Richard Nixon resigned his presidency, and just before most people wanted to crash their cars into a brick wall a little-known movie called Star Wars (1977) was released.  At the time not many people knew but this space movie was about to change the whole culture.  

When Reagan’s 1980s kicked in with a promise to raise profits on Wall Street and create a more secure and safe place to invest, teenagers, for the most part, stopped with the protesting and complaining about how poorly the system was being operated and just played alone.  The 1980s was a juvenile time in the culture where songs became more light-hearted and magical rather than the philosophical fare from the ’60s and ’70s.  Movies were about teenagers going off on big adventures like in The Goonies and Back to the Future.  This was to keep them doing their homework and moving towards becoming more productive members of corporate society.  All their fantasies for freedom all unfolded on the movie screen rather than the streets of any major American city while being smacked down by massive men in riot gear.

The 1990s ushered in a new revolution in the culture where the youth were fighting back again.  With the first Gulf War underway and the media playing a central role in everyone’s lives, teenagers turned to grunge music to escape this new wave of technology and government control.  Where the death of John Lennon killed the possibility of hope for a less guarded society in 1980, Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994 would end the grunge movement and the hope it inspired.  Just after this moment, we entered a true fault line in culture with Microsoft introducing Windows 95 and the World Wide Web spreading around the world and changing pretty well every way we communicate as a species.  At the time this was new technology and most could not see the tsunami thrusting us all, like it or not, into a new age of technology and corporate and political control over the population.

Those that tried to hold onto what grunge had started did so in the movie theater.  Music owned the first half of the ’90s and movies most defiantly owned the second half.  A film like 1995’s Seven was a deep line in the existential sand as corporations were stumbling over themselves, racing to buy up as much real estate on the internet as their greedy little hands could grab.  Toward the end of the ’90s, cinema had created a massive bastion of films that forced light on the subject of the nature of reality itself.  These films reimagined age-old philosophical questions, fusing them in modern-day life and technology itself, the so-called new savior of humanity.   The Matrix, The Truman Show, eXistenZ, Being John Malkovich, Dark City, Fight Club, and The Thirteenth Floor, to name a few.

Cell phones finally developed enough for many to have one of their own.  Teenagers were growing up during this massive shift, not only in culture but in government foreign policy pertaining to war practices, and how corporations were finding new ways to sell their products to all the unsuspecting, impressionable teenagers screaming for an identity while the century closes on a massive Y2K scare.

With the birth of a new century came an end to movies inspiring people to think outside the box of their computer screens.  Music dropped all the tough making-people-think bands and instead dumbed down their catalog to something that can only be described as a fusion of a child’s lullaby and hyper-circus music.  The September 11, 2001 attacks would create such a fear in the mass body of the population that doing anything outside of what corporations and the government instructed borderline on treason.  At this point, a new shift in society came about where the teenage culture became the culture.  Pretty well everything across the board was the lowest common denominator.  We were no longer a society that nurtured imagination and creativity.  Instead, we became a full-blown consumer society where a person’s interests could only be found at the click-of-a-button online shopping market or playing a virtual larger-than-life character in the gaming world.  Variety has become isolated which has led most to strengthen their confirmation bias, avoiding such societal malediction as depression - due to an apathetic population, all desperately fishing for constant validation but more often than falling into the sad pool of victimhood culture. 

With Facebook going online and the first touchscreen iPhone becoming available, teenagers were not only representing the culture through social media but soon they would inadvertently be running it. Mainstream movies in the 2000s were pretty much superhero or young adult-oriented.  Music continued down the path of simplicity while most shied away from the reality of the massive war in the Middle East.

Up until the present, from the 2000s on, most adults in their 20’s, 30’s, and even the Star Wars generation in their 40’s, still wanting to go to a galaxy far far away, were adults that have been absorbed into the culture and have thus unknowingly arrested their personal development.  Their mentors have become teenagers and not philosophers or older people with true wisdom; their reading material has been reduced to the 140 characters allowed on Twitter rather than books about history and art.  

Living with reality is a very large part of the human experience.  Unfortunately, we now live in a society where most adults, read, think, and behave at a preteen level while they build upon their digital citizenship.  This is all acceptable because the majority have been hypnotized by the mass media by being fed entertainment through multiple television channels, through the disconnectivity of cellphone communications and from the government, which keeps them scared of a foreign boogeyman that could kill them, taking away their freedom to shop for more stuff and to ‘Like’ more trivial cute animal posts on Facebook.

Teenagers of today develop their interpersonal relationships for the most part by chasing ‘Likes’ on Facebook, ‘Subscribes’ on YouTube, and ‘Retweets’ on Twitter, because this, in our technopoly, is where self-worth is fabricated.  These affirmations have become their currency and for many their only concern.  We are marketing ourselves as online celebrities because we want to win, we want to be recognized as someone special in a world that is becoming increasingly empty and lonely.  This system allows people to advertise for corporate products through their personal devices, while those same products are being force-fed back to them in this odd digital cycle of insecurities, fusing with corporate agendas in this idiosyncratic pursuit for some form of happiness. Corporations have disguised what they truly want from people and they have done this in such a masterful way so that a person actually disguises it from themselves.

The purpose here is not to say that all teenagers have become spending drones for corporations or that all young and middle-aged adults are afraid of growing up, there are still some people out there, young and old, that have seen behind the curtain and don't like what they're looking at.  What I’m saying is there is a trend that is flourishing in the culture where teenagers are being robbed of their ability to live a life, free of control.  It would be nice to see teenagers in a position to truly understand the choices they are making, rather than corporate 'think-groups' in offices that look like daycare centers, dream up ways to manipulate them into caring about their stupid products.  Like most culture shifts, these things come and go.  Maybe teenagers of the future won’t rely on text messaging to convey their feelings to another person elsewhere in the world.  Maybe talking to people will become a new trend again. Maybe the robots do everything for us while we jack into a Matrix-type world of our choosing and never really have to live a day in the real world again.

Are We Alone in the Universe?

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON DECEMBER 17, 2014

People often confuse ideas between what they want versus what is probable.  Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question back in 1950, ‘Where is everybody?’ meaning if there is intelligent life out in the deep of space, where is it?  Why haven’t we picked up some sort of long range signal sailing across the universe from their distant civilization?

Entertaining the proposition of ‘want’, we find ourselves believing in all matter of scientific fiction.  Movies, stories, radio broadcasts and imagination have most of us all believing in some sort of life on other planets.  Most of us think it would be cool if there was something out there.  Somehow Aliens could solve all our problems clearly because we are unable to.  The sad state here is the answers to our own existence is right here on earth but most of us are too stupid to investigate ourselves.  Instead we seek outside answers because we delude ourselves into thinking that our problems can be solved, but not by us.  Anybody that has opened a psychology book and understood it knows that our problems are within us.  We must look inwardly in order to healthily live outwardly.  We live in a society that breeds drone people that are trained like pets to believe they are free.  The likelihood of a mass enlightenment that pulls dumb-downed people out of their own dumb versions of reality is unfortunately unlikely.  We will still believe that fantasy and reality are one in the same.  We will still believe that our way of looking at things must be the only way and anyone who challenges that, excommunication or death for them.  So many of us that are commonly blinded by truth all around us look to the stars, we look toward space.

The problem with our concept of space is our attraction to fill it.  We buy a house and what do we do, we fill it with stuff, some practical like a bed and couch, and some not so practical like ornaments and pictures.  We buy boxes to put things in them so it’s understandable that when we look at space we think of it as something that should be occupied by something.  The problem here is we take this same practical sentiment and apply it to the universe.  Without considering reality and the Fermi Paradox, it seems reasonable that life must exist on other planets.  Most of us don’t really know what we are talking about so seek culture for guidance, we then rewrite, reconstruct our own reality to fit into our fabricated belief system of our limited worldview.

Now when you factor in evidence and probability, intelligent life on other planets starts to become less likely.  The number one thing to consider when hypothesizing about extraterrestrial life is this; if they are out there why on earth would they care about us?  We would be ants to them, self-destructive ants; we would be this early civilization of beings that barely have left their own home world.  Then there is the chance that they might be intelligent beings but have never developed technology to even achieve interstellar travel.  We have such an intelligent species on this very planet, Dolphins. 

Then the most likely case, just because there is 10,000 billion billion planets in the Universe, that doesn’t necessary mean that intelligent lifeforms with technological capabilities live on them.  Our species itself was a fluke.  There were so many sets of circumstances that nudged us from nothingness to the most intelligent(?) species to exist on this planet.  For a planet to be the correct distance from its Sun, for the thermodynamic properties to just be right for complex life to occur, make the odds dubious.

This fantasy that we have built upon over the years still goes back to humanities number one problem; it can’t get over itself.  Our solipsistic species is under the illusion that we are special, so special in fact that we created a make believe father figure that is the architect of us all.  We did this because we are scared of the dark, the darkness of loneliness, the darkness of outside forces such as weather, animals and other people, the darkness of death and the finite nature of existence, and the darkness of space, time and the universe, and most importantly the darkness of our own inner minds.  We are all on a ball spinning around in a universe that is endless and cold.   We as a species define our reality through fantasies, concoctions that we over many centuries made up so we could mean something.

The idea of extraterrestrial life falls under the illusions we tell ourselves in order to get through the cold existential bleakness of our daily lives.  We want to mean something without really knowing why we want to mean something.  We are drifters in our minds searching for a home that we can call our own.  We are the aliens we seek; we are the enablers that keep us back from whatever it is we want.  We are the blamers that convince ourselves that the problem with our world isn’t us but rather everybody around us.  We are the deniers that don’t want help from other people because our massive egos couldn’t survive it.  We are desperately floating in the space of our minds seeking assistance.  As a consequence, the fantasy of the mind fabricates realities that don’t exist in the world outside the complexity of the mind, like religion and this notion of life out there somewhere looking down on us.  We will remain alone until we wake up, or are woken up to the realities of existence and death on this very planet.  We will suffer if we don’t travel down that road and face our fears by telling them that they were the lies all along.  

The Problem between the Rule of Law and the Online Court of Public Opinion

by Christopher Barr │POSTED ON DECEMBER 8, 2014

Society is stuck together by the glue that the law enforces.  If this wasn’t the case we wouldn’t have much of a society and we certainly wouldn’t have a society like the one, for the most part enjoy, in the first world.  We need just look to some third world countries to see that murder, theft and rape are an every hour and sometimes every minute occurrence.  Yes there are bumps in the road but for the most part we are free to walk where we want to walk, and carry our food from the grocery store to the car without being ambushed.

So what happens when the law lets the people down?  What happens when a police officer in Ferguson and a police officer in New York are responsible for the death of a man, a man resisting arrest but otherwise containable without the need for lethal force?  The death of Eric Garner and the Grand Jury’s decision to not indict New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, for applying an against regulations chokehold causing the death of Gardner, was yet another blow to this ongoing police brutality problem in the United States.

There are still more women coming forward claiming that Comedian Bill Cosby had drugged them and raped them.  The problem with the law as we all would like to see it; is it’s become this tool for the one-percenter’s and the Elite just beneath them to wield as they will.  Justice is supposed to be blind but I think we are all coming to terms with the fact that it can see just fine.  Justice can be quite cruel to those that don’t toe the line as a worker for the Elite, and for those that threaten profit so the Elite can maintain their power over the populace.

The police, and I’d like to state not all the police, have become mercenaries for those that rule over us.  “To Serve and Protect” is no longer for the working class, it’s for the Multinational Bankers, the weapons manufactures’, the CEO’s and politicians that perch themselves up on the highest levels of power, beneath the one-percenter’s and the true Power Elite.  This realization begins to force us to question the very laws that we assumed held society together.

The sad thing is we are getting comments from people via the television or internet claiming that the alleged victims of Bill Cosby should have come forward earlier.  We are being told by some so-called experts that if people like Eric Gardner didn’t resist the police they wouldn’t be dead right now.  The problem is these are heavily biased opinions attempting to serve themselves as arguments.  The internet especially, has allowed most of us to believe that what we have to say is just as qualified as a professor of sociology’s is.  The internet has afforded us anonymity and it has emboldened us.  There have been many legitimate opinions from people disapproving of the way police are going overboard, but then there are the ones with agendas that are exploiting such tragedies for their own gain.

The internet has been in the public-sphere for just over two decades now.  Many people have had some time now to warm up to this new form of communication.  It is not lost on me that this very article is an opinion, with that said; opinions are just getting out of hand.  There are so many opinions about any given topic that they flood the playing field.  They suffocate the discourse itself into a competition of narcissistic viewpoints; they blind the potential for truth to surface.  

The real problem is because the gates instantly become flooded with haphazard opinions; it doesn’t give a person much time for them to think about their opinion.  As a consequence people simply react to comments with often gibberish rather than thoughtful insight.  Certainly time is a factor as well, they want the opinion now before the next sound bite swallows the previous one.  Social Media is a beast that could alert us to the mischievous criminal activity of the ruling class and unite us, or it can turn us all against each other while the ruling class profits from our misery.  I’d love to say that it will unite us all against the tyranny of the Elite but what do I know, this is just my opinion that can be easily accessed or simply discarded by the safety and security found by the click of the mouse.

BLACK FRIDAY: Crashing Through the Doors for More 'Stuff' to be Happier People?

by Christopher Barr │POSTED ON NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Black Friday as you know is a sale, held by various stores such as Walmart, Target and many many others, the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, in some cases even before midnight.  It falls just after a time when many are giving thanks for who they have in their life and the food they have on their table.  Thanksgiving is about being grateful, it’s about being thankful, it’s about being humble.  Then Black Friday comes around a day later and all bets are off.  Maybe the average American Walmart doorcrasher would provide the excuse that it was Thanksgiving ‘Day’ not Thanksgiving ‘Year’.

Black Friday and the crazy events that occur at department stores isn’t necessarily a sign of the fall of civilization leading to an apocalypse, but it is a representation of all that is indecent in society, manifesting itself when those front doors open and waves of heathen shoppers storm over each other to get to that buy one, get one free doll for their kid or that wall-sized flat screen TV that’s half off.

There is this cycle that the world’s greatest civilizations go through that starts with bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; and from dependence back to bondage only to go round and round again.  This savage behaviour is new in America because when I was a kid this certainly didn’t happen.  Black Friday is one more little nudge as the decline in society furthers.  Again, not the death of us all, if you want that look no further then the Fukushima power plant in Japan to state a case on that.

What we do have here are people running amok, without having a clue as to truly why they are doing it.  This consumer culture is so saturated with advertising telling people the only thing they can do to complete themselves is buy ‘things’ is a sign of a sick society.  Reading books and discovering what it means for you to be alive on this planet in this time are signs of a healthy society, sadly that isn’t a society I ever heard of, maybe little pockets in Europe.

The corporate executives have their worker sheep tending to the wolves while they collect all their greed money.  It’s sad to see this because people, average people and let’s face it, not the brightest, have no idea how dooped they really are.  Some camp out before the midnight madness gets underway as most are still digesting their Thanksgiving turkeys.  It’s horrifying to see such animalism among a society of people that are told they are members of the greatest country on this planet.  Certainly beyond the looking glass most of the world knows this not to be true, as they sit and watch video upon video on YouTube, of Americans making complete fools of themselves.  

Let’s not forget that all Americans aren’t savages, so they too will shake their heads at their own countrymen as they trip and fall their way over to the electronics department to get their hands of that last doorbuster, as members of the media film the whole thing to later make fun of it on national news.  There have been people shot, stabbed, pepper-sprayed, kicked, punched, split on and verbally assaulted so crazed shoppers can get into the store only to find out that the product they wanted has been sold out.  What they don’t know is these doorbusters are purposely understocked so the department store can sell other products at their regular prices. 

We are taught to hate ourselves so we buy things to correct that presumed fact.  Maybe it’s a desperate attempt at saving face in a society that, for the most part steam-rolls over the average person trying to make their way in the world, even if it’s a narrow-American-minded world.  Regardless the bait is set and the animals come.  To me it’s odd to have such a need for something like a pot and pan set that turns you into a crazed lunatic.  But I think we all know it’s not quite that, what it is; is displaced anger and a desire to fill in the gaps of that American dream that you we promised.  It’s about taking what’s yours and to fuck with everyone else. 

It’s actually about narcissism because I can tell you that intellectuals and mindful people wouldn’t be caught dead crashing a door for a Guttenberg Bible, no more than you would see a Buddhist strapping a bomb to his chest and running into a Hindu café.  Walmart and the like know that their average customer isn’t the smartest tool in the shed, so they know that they can easily manipulate them with just a little piece of cheese.  Sadly there are too many people ready for the thrills of cheap prices and in some cases, are ultimately too blind to see that they have bought into the spectacle of crowd mentality, driven debauchery.    

Ferguson on Fire because Grand Jury's Decision to let Wilson off the Hook

by Christopher Barr │POSTED ON NOVEMBER 25, 2014  

The people of Ferguson, Missouri and the whole of the United States are completely justified in their grievance of the Grand Jury’s decision to not bring criminal charges against police officer Darren Wilson, for the shooting of unarmed youth Michael Brown on August 9th.  This decision not to indict this man unfortunately isn’t that surprising; it was just the Elite protecting one of their soldiers.  I might add the law and justice don’t apply to them in the same way as it does to all us worker-bees.  They’re special because not only do they run the show, they own the show, so that’s not surprising. 

It’s still upsetting that this form of injustice can be allowed to persist but one thing I do know for sure, burning down a portion of your own town will do nothing, if not straighten their case and continuing their need/desire to use excessive force.  Certainly not all those angered at the Grand Jury’s decision fled to the streets with fire bombs and started destroying everything in sight, but a lot did do that.  

Looting, really?  Again, I get the rage I get the disgust but displacing your so-called anger over a very justified position, only to bust the windows of electronic stores to steal flat screen TV’s loses the point and isn't helping matters.  Burning down part of your town and terrorizing your fellow neighbours, destroying people’s local businesses, and shooting at firemen tasked to put out the fires so the whole city doesn’t burn down, isn’t going to get your point across in the judicial way that it should.

What we are dealing with here is a great hypocrisy.  These rioters not only destroyed the lives of a number of innocent people who had nothing to do with any of it.  They made the very police officers, that they accused of being unjustifiably heavy-handed and brutal now justified with their resolve.  They have given license to police across the country to possibly think a little less, when being approached by a precarious individual in the dark who may or may not be armed.

Group think, group mentality has for the most part, shaved off the IQ’s of most of those that participate in it.  There are injustices everywhere, macroscopically down to the microscopically but what holds a society together is the application of reason and logic, two ingredients that were lacking in Ferguson.  This resulted into madness, animals expressing themselves, not with the full capacity of their neurological functioning, but rather to that of dogs.