Facebook is just the latest tool we have created that we can use to kill each other with. Kill is actually too kind. Massacre fits better. Facebook is actually genocidal. Ironic that a website with so many baby pictures and happy faces and people holding hands and hugging each other can also be as dangerous as the A-bomb. The atom bomb can wipe out a city with a single push of a button. And Facebook will allow a single fool to spew forth hate and vitriol, and watch it capture the dim-witted imaginations of his friends, watch it spread faster than a heat-sucking California wild fire, and in hours watch literally thousands of people whose religion or ethnicity or gender is of another kind, watch them succumb to the march of marauding machetes and exploding guns.
What to do? Ban facebook? Like we banned the bomb? The genie is out of the bottle. He won't be put back.
My wife keeps telling me you have to start with the young ones. Teach them to love each other's differences, teach them to cherish diversity and their own identity.
I wonder if we're too late. Are there too many old haters out there? Have they taught their children well? Will their youngsters hate as well as their parents have? Is there room for wiser children? Can those children prevail?
It probably doesn't matter who prevails. The journey's the thing. How we live it is pretty much all that matters.
Pretty unlikely that our species will last much longer. We're making it pretty unlikely that any species will last much longer on this earth. But there are other earths. Thank God!
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