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Today, in a day of violent attack on a satirical magazine, “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, I received an article from Salon magazine called “No civilization would tolerate what America has done”. One paragraph in the article really struck me as being true.

“The acknowledgment of America’s need to learn to live together has a simplicity that masks its profundity. Robert Putnam, in Bowling Alone, documented the extent of Americans’ isolation from each other. Mass shootings, rates of violent crime higher than the rest of the developed world and outrages like Garner’s and Brown’s deaths demonstrate that the inability to peacefully coexist in America goes beyond race. It is a bone-deep dysfunction with social costs, political implications and spiritual disasters. Inequality will continue to grow and injustice will continue to worsen until America is made to actually deal with its levels of selfish indifference to suffering, from ordinary people on grand juries to those who occupy the highest thrones of power.”

Politicians, like our Governor in his inaugural address yesterday and our President keep talking about the equal opportunity of Americans when the opposite is true, inequality is growing. The ‘indifference’ to suffering in the USA seems to me to also be growing. People are coming desensitized to violence. When we show that Marquette University teaches killing, killing without conscience like in the YouTube video: Marquette and Notre Dame Universities teach war and killing, we are still ignored. The killing of innocent women, children and men by USA Killer Drones seems to bother only a few.

Like many others I have called for a change of heart, for One Person Revolutionaries to Unite; but can that happen in time before the USA explores from the inside out?

Perhaps we are doomed for the fall of the Empire but we must try to change ourselves and then join others who are compassionate and not entrenched with ‘selfish indifference’.

A friend has criticized me for using the world “racism” in describing actions of St. Vincent de Paul Society in Milwaukee to raise funds for the poor and invest them in the wealthy suburbs. Persons at Marquette do not like to hear that it teaches war and killing but if we are silent, when even the military admits it, what will happen to our Catholic Universities.

There is a chant used in protest of white police officers killing unarmed black men that says: “No Justice, No Peace.” Until black lives matter as much as white lives, until Catholic universities dedicated to Gospel values, like ‘Love your enemy’, stop teaching war and killing there will be no peace. The empire is falling and all can do is throw wrenches in this ugly machine of racism and militarism and try to slow it down. Perhaps we can slow in down until we can unite and begin a new society of life in the shell of the one of death.

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