Thursday 20 September 2007

"We have accepted the unthinkable with resignation"

I need to confess that as I read the newspapers both online from around the world & the occasional in the hand version; as I see various TV documentaries; as I listen to various world leaders and the leader & aspiring leader of Australia - in short as I contemplate the state of this earth & the reality of the poor, marginalized, dispossessed assails my mind & heart I think of the comment by the English writer H. V. Morton in his book I Saw Two Englands: "We have accepted the unthinkable with resignation. That is the distinctive quality of this age …"
What more can I say?

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