It is becoming more and more part of our daily lives…
I’m talking about wildness.
This rise in violence on our streets, in our schools.
Even our hospitals. Because indifference to the suffering of others is a harmful form of violence.
What we commit by doing nothing.
Photo stock.adobe.com (Marco)
step by step
I have often quoted this line from the William Hurt film Broadcast News.
“If the devil came today, he would not commit devilish acts, he would not harm anyone… He would only lower our moral standards. Just a little bit… He would lower the bar little by little…”
Well, that’s exactly what happens.
Little by little we get used to the violence. Like a frog in a pot of water slowly heated over low heat.
The temperature rises and rises, but the frog doesn’t complain, doesn’t notice anything.
Until it’s cooked.
This is us.
Violence spreads like oil.
One day a young man is beaten up by thugs.
The next day, a teacher was attacked by a 13-year-old teenager.
And two days later, a sixty-year-old who was stabbed while leaving a concert hall.
A referee being beaten up by a parent in the middle of a game.
Or an angry driver who gave full throttle and drove into a traffic jam.
This is how a society degenerates.
Not all at once, bam!
- Listen to the live broadcast of the Martineau – Dutrizac meeting every day at 11:35 am. above QUB radio :
But little by little.
One day you are walking through your neighborhood and notice that there are two or three homeless people on the street, even though there never were any.
Then some shady young people hang around.
Then you find out that your neighbor’s son was beaten in front of his house.
At first it surprises you, but after a while it becomes part of the landscape, your daily life.
Poverty, crime, drugs. Vandalism. Graffiti. Broken windows.
Montreal, for example, has long been a super safe city, one of the safest in North America.
It has changed, it is no longer the same.
We saw nothing, felt nothing.
We slipped, that’s all.
We have learned to “live with it”, we have developed new reflexes, we have changed our habits – in short, we have let it happen, with the result that we are now overwhelmed.
We’ve lost control.
Entire parts of the city have become inaccessible.
Give up
Talk to every teacher you meet: teaching has become a hellish job.
The parents gave up.
The administrations have given up.
The slightest display of authority has become a “microaggression.”
The key word now is “kindness.”
“Love is the infinity that is attainable for poodles,” said Céline (not the singer, the other one).
Well, kindness is respect that we took out of the freezer and put in the microwave.
It’s dripping. It’s sweet, sticky.
One should understand.” And most importantly: don’t judge.
This way, one day you will agree to an answer.
Another day of being insulted.
Then another day of getting hit.
Gradually.
Step by step.
