Feeling Sad for Stupid and Mean People
The popular Christian reverend John Pavlovitz writes:It’s simply demoralizing sharing a country with people who think Donald Trump is someone worth emulating: to be surrounded by that kind of moral inversion every single day, to be continually encountering such cruelty. It’s a source of profound and sustained grieving to believe that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and afforded opportunity—and to know how many simply do not share that belief. I don’t hate these people but I am deeply saddened by them.
I fall in line here to a degree, but sometimes I find myself in a mood in which there is something comical about people who think it’s cool to say “Let’s Go Brandon” or “Trump won.” Once in a while, idiocy on steroids, i.e., the actions of subhuman people, actually amuses me.
More to the point, given that there is no evidence of life after death, we need to enjoy ourselves while we can. Spending our time feeling sorrow for the stupid and hateful people of the world seems like something we should try to overcome, rather than resign ourselves to.
