tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post6688323312896199895..comments2024-03-25T05:17:05.202-05:00Comments on Writing In The Crosshairs: THE LOCUST EFFECT: IS AMERICA, THE WORLD GETTING WORSE? Roland D. Yeomanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-66238827366173616332016-07-01T23:10:09.428-05:002016-07-01T23:10:09.428-05:00Long ago there was a Sean Connery movie, WRONG IS ...Long ago there was a Sean Connery movie, WRONG IS RIGHT. Today seems to have brought it to pass. :-(Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-38785857852412026012016-07-01T16:13:26.030-05:002016-07-01T16:13:26.030-05:00What is a lie, now becomes truth. There is no dev...What is a lie, now becomes truth. There is no devil. There is no God. Politically correct. You're a Nazi if you disagree with what I say. JV team. Change 2nd amendment. Locusts become normal. best way to survive is to accept them. Good is bad, bad is good.<br />Dear Lord, Help us.Susan Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834094675218254410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-66266230306916554072016-06-30T23:20:46.013-05:002016-06-30T23:20:46.013-05:00The light is doing nothing for Isis or the Taliban...The light is doing nothing for Isis or the Taliban or mothers shooting their daughters in front of the fathers to hurt them.<br /><br />I was on the streets of New Orleans right after Katrina when the lights went out and the predators came out to play with few, if any police.<br /><br />Technology is getting better. Man is staying the same ... just more of them.<br /><br />Things are getting better. Man is still same old, same old. Ouch! :-)Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-30406489238607829082016-06-30T23:16:07.919-05:002016-06-30T23:16:07.919-05:00Yes, me, too. :-(Yes, me, too. :-(Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-64224277018383534682016-06-30T21:25:18.575-05:002016-06-30T21:25:18.575-05:00I believe that the awful has always been there. We...I believe that the awful has always been there. We just hear about it more today. That is a good thing. Because before the awful thrived in the darkness, continuing. Now, it's being brought into the light, and is being cleansed by it.<br /><br />Not all sociopaths are evil. They can be trained to do good. It just has to be in their own self interest.<br /><br />Things are getting better. It may not seem like that. But it's like how sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. Like setting a broken bone. It hurts terribly while it's pushed back into place, but once there, it can heal.Liz A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16531953467834426316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-18959487749239754052016-06-30T13:37:47.437-05:002016-06-30T13:37:47.437-05:00I think the locust theory is apt. Minds that have ...I think the locust theory is apt. Minds that have been channelled and taught a certain mind-set will believe they are the salvation of society - but evil grows well in a society that ignores the majority to satisfy the few.<br />History has shown this many times over.D.G. Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213237734772028645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-9626624594354586392016-06-30T10:04:07.855-05:002016-06-30T10:04:07.855-05:00Talk to a police officer: he sees judges standing ...Talk to a police officer: he sees judges standing over beaten wives, doctors crumbling under financial and emotional pressures become addicts. No strata of society is immune to the cancer of the emotionally isolated psyche.<br /><br />It is a question of numbers. For every aberrant deed, many good people are needed to clean up the aftermath. But with the number of aberrant people committing them, the good people are being overwhelmed ... ask the Human Services of any city.<br /><br />We are approaching a point in our society when exhausted people will just pull back out of simple self-preservation. :-(Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-4509045332746843412016-06-30T09:57:01.787-05:002016-06-30T09:57:01.787-05:00Technology has indeed increased but so has populat...Technology has indeed increased but so has population. Human nature remains the same but with more humans we are becoming locusts.Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-78511113345773410232016-06-30T09:27:44.531-05:002016-06-30T09:27:44.531-05:00I read The Sociopath Next Door. The author lives h...I read The Sociopath Next Door. The author lives here on Cape Ann. The truth is that MOST people are fairly decent and kind and we only hear about the bad ones, but the bad ones are the exception. And, as Mr. Rogers always said, when a disaster--natural or man-made, happens, look for the helpers. Look at how many people rush to help those who have been hurt.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15964712984479525970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-76014682850633198152016-06-30T07:24:09.349-05:002016-06-30T07:24:09.349-05:00Perhaps because of technology, we hear about it mo...Perhaps because of technology, we hear about it more.<br />Funny, I just came from a blogger's site and he read a book where they stated that despite how bad it seems, the data says things really aren't getting worse. (Sorry, don't remember the book.)Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.com