Not all Chickens get their comeuppance as these two did. No news of AG Healey’s or Professor Thrasher’s communities (gated or not) being torched. Nor do I want them to. May the “holy innocents” they foolishly celebrate never torch their coops. But I do want them and all the other politicians, academics, corporate flacks, and journalists who are willing to celebrate somebody else’s bacon being fried in the name of flattened curves, new forestation, and utopian revolutionary dreams to stop and think about what they are doing. It is depressing that I think these people are far beyond the golden rule of doing to others what you would have them do unto you. Perhaps, however, the silver rule is still within their reach: do not do to others what you would not have them do unto you. At the very least, do not urge others to do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.
Don’t cry “burn it down” unless you are willing to stand in the ashes of your own gated community and mourn the heap of rubble that was once your Starbucks.
By David Deavel|June 10th, 2020