WolfesBlog
by Claire Wolfe

09/28/05

For me, that one spare paragraph, that one bland, banal, business-as-usual bureaucratic cruelty, encapsulated everything that's wrong -- and increasingly wrong, I fear -- with the human race. If 'one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic,' then for me the single unspeakable refusal to rescue a tiny animal -- forcing a desperate man to kill the creature he'd loved and saved -- drew all the cruelties of institutionalized culture into one Goya-like image in my mind's eye. And I simply haven't found a way to go on conducting the ordinary business of life when I'm a member of a species that routinely behaves with such rottenness...

http://www.clairewolfe.com/wolfesblog/00001699.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp