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The Have-No-Shame Virus Spreading
in America Today 04/18/2023 |
One of the signs of our times today is that in our public discourse many politicians as well as journalists and media corporations appear to be perfectly fine strutting the stage without
shame. |
A Have-No-Shame virus is also a Have-No-Conscience virus as we learned yesterday. And, per my video of yesterday, a have-no honor, no-integrity, no-decency, no-principle,
no-morality, no-character, no-respect, no-esteem, no-regard, no-reverence, no-dignity, no-repute virus. | When judges simply decline to bow to expected norms of decency, what are the options? MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez and Josh Gerstein, Senior Legal Affairs Writer for Politico, report. |
It is a kind of moral self hatred. And a flaunting of it. Sad to say, this virus is found in our politics and some media corporations where the largest cable company in America is scheduled to
go to trial today. Why? Essentially for lies supporting another Lie that whipped up an insurrection in the nation’s capitol that has sent many hundreds to jail, killed six people and wounded over 140 policemen trying to defend the building. And clearly the virus has spread to the very top of our judicial system in what we used to call the Supreme Court. As for the presidency, never in the history of our nation have we had a politician–much
less a commander in chief–more totally dedicated to being a person beyond shame as the previous president. And succeeding beyond belief. |
Katie Phang interviews activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham on the latest GOP-led legislations restricting books and cutting funding for public libraries. MSNBC | Though inconvenienced by six or seven investigations underway in numerous states, he is currently testing just how far a no-shame, no-morality, no-conscience campaign can take one as he runs to be president again. |
The same politician has cloned himself in the form of countless other politicians who seem to feel America is Germany in the 30’s and therefore they have the right to tell teachers and professors what they can and cannot teach; and tell citizens what books they can read and librarians what books they can order and display; and tell the FDA
what drugs are suitable for women to take. Is this “small government”—which used to be the cry of a certain political party? |
Is telling every woman in America what they can and cannot do with their bodies “small government”? Ask the supreme court. Is expelling two duly elected young black men from the Tennessee state legislature governing rightly? | State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the fight to preserve American democracy as he prepares for a “Moral Monday” protest
in Nashville to push for gun safety laws. MSNBC |
A “have-no-shame” virus in America can kill even more millions than those who died from coronavirus. A have-no-shame disease, also known as have-no-conscience, can kill democracy and the whole idea of “the common
good.” | |
See Matthew Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas, pp. 116-119, on having and using one’s conscience. Also see Matthew Fox, Sheer Joy, pp. 474-480, on conscience. See also Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of
Men, pp. 51-57, 285-294. Banner Image: Detail from “Corrupt Legislation.” A girl standing in the ruins of a brick wall shows an empty spindle and distaff to a throned personification of corrupt system, which holds a one-sided balance by gripping the
balance beam. To the other side, an elderly figure reading from a book labelled “law” places a (ransom?) bag on the balance’s one pan. Mural by Elihu Vedder. Lobby to Main Reading Room, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Artist’s signature is dated 1896. Public Domain. Wikimedia
Commons. |
Queries for Contemplation
How much of having-no-shame
do you think upheld the Nazi movement of the 1930s?
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