All the suffering
That is preventable, if we all demand and fight for it
This essay is about all the suffering that has been, and will be, because it is important to discuss our condition as a species.
In this first chapter, I’ll concentrate on the United States of America, because that’s where I have spent most of my adult life, and that’s where I became a naturalized citizen, and that’s where I began to realize exactly how ugly much of the human condition is, and how privileged my own existence is, and how disgusting inequality extremes are.
We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow an…
