Dear Editor,
In a society where our eyes, minds & souls are daily exposed to more & more abhorrent & horrific realities & repugnant visions of apocalypse, many of us seem to be more and more obsessed with vicariously experiencing progressively more and more explicit and fantastical terror.
We cower in our oh so carefully acclimatized & insulated homes, gripping guns to our breasts, imagining apocalypse in the form of wretched, insensate, acquisitive & oversexed poor, gays, transexuals, blacks, Hispanics & Muslims, drooling voraciously for our wealth & our vitality; real life zombies bent on stealing our very lives.
We embrace that fear, that horror, that cataclysm as if it were somehow reality.
It is not.
Jim Martin
Perryville