Utopia is a Fairytale

After watching the August 19th edition of "Donnybrook", where St. Louis panelists Bill McClellan and Ray Hartman hosted the call in portion of the program, I felt compelled to voice the overwhelming point of note I took away from viewing this edition of the show. The panelists field questions and offer their opinions in response to callers on a myriad of local topics of interest, not the least being the idea of building a mosque near 9/11, Ground Zero in New York.    Many callers expressed their opinion that the Muslim Americans were less American than "real, born and raised" Americans.  One said that Muslims born and raised in America were less.  Bill McClellan tried to discourage arguing over the disparaging point of contention, acquiescing to "agree to disagree".  Ray Hartman expressed more contentiousness siting the Japanese interment camps during World War II as not America's proudest moment.  It is only my presumption that Ray's Jewish heritage may factor into the portion of the equation where bigotry, hatred and intolerance demands vocal vehemence.

Unfortunately, the technical advantages the world knows today, via our communications and devices to reach out and touch someone, does not alter the hatred that still exists in the world.  Although ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse, knowledge is not the missing link.  It is more about the hatred handed down through families.  It can not leave it's gnarly, ugly, smelly contamination off those it touches.  It behaves like cancer, reaching it's tentacles around it's victims, choking the lifeblood from reaching the heart and brain, instead, infiltrating toxins that prevent nourishing oxygen and leaving impairment.  There is little chance of coming back.  The damage is done. 

Since the beginning of time, wars have been an expression of intolerance.  All the brilliant minds have yet to cure this neurotoxin.  Answers remain illusive conjecture leaving malevolence alive. Peace is a long way off and Utopia remains an illusion.