Tiburon torpor abruptly halted
I heard that there was the 4th murder in 40 years in Tiburon today and my only response is what goes on? Is Tiburon in some kind of collective torpor – I mean really – I am living in the murder capital of the US, so maybe I find it odd that somewhere else there are only 4 deaths in 40 years – the 4th in Tiburon was a 70 year old woman was shot in the head and found in her yard dead. Sad.
Right now, I’m in the midst of finishing Ghost Train to the Eastern Star – and disconcerted about the accounts of violence that humans perpetrate on each other – the Khmer Rouge, Turkmenistan, Vietnam – there is one point where Theroux is speaking about the horror and then realizes that Cheney has just said about our use of waterboarding, “it’s effective” – what goes on?
A friend said to me there is a thin line between us being civilized and us being savages.