What does it take?

"The world needs anger.  The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."  ~  Bede Jarrett

With the sounds of yesterday's gun shots still echoing in my head, and pages full of dead cops and little girls starved to death, I'm afraid I'm a little foul-tempered and unfiltered today.  A generation of concessions and platitudes hasn't created a kinder, gentler world - it's hollowed out the foundation and created a rickety structure barely able to hold its roof up.  As any good pagan will tell you, dichotomy defines the world - without it you have imbalance and chaos.  There is no day without night, black without white, success without failure - one defines the other.

So to function in a world without failure, without adequate consequence, without the ability to accept and process loss, cripples our psyches and creates this sickly, weak atmosphere where it is considered better to patronize and console than it is say something is wrong.  The point of "constructive" criticism is to construct - to build.  We do not build anymore, we survive.

It's not ok.