Creations Anonymous (creationsanon) wrote in musings, @ 2011-04-04 14:54:00 |
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Op-Ed: Letter to the Editor The masks are catalysts. They are the same as any other people – what matters is not action, but reaction, and the essence of the human condition can be discerned only in the latter. It is easy to act favorably, but much more difficult to react favorably. Reactions are mostly uncontrolled, irrational displays that rip us open and show the world what we truly are. Even the most controlled, most thorough, most thoughtful person will display micro-expressions that belay their true feelings. It would be foolish to despise a catalyst, though we all will. Catalysts bring about change, and even the most fluid of human beings resists change. We are creatures of habits, of patterns. How many of us, when give the option to pick our own seat in a schoolroom, will consistently pick the same seat? Very few will choose different seats every day. We prefer a baseline, and status quo. The masks disrupt that. And yet we must ask ourselves how much of the baseline they truly disrupt. Is it not just as likely that Anthony Eels would have gunned down the police officer who arrested his son had an officer made the arrest? The answer, of course, is yes. Mr. Eels chose to attack a normal man, a maskless man. So we must ask ourselves: was a mask the cause of Mr. Ames’ death? Unlikely. Mr. Ames died because of a single man making a single choice. Because of a man who reacted and, in doing so, showed the world who he truly was, of what he was truly capable. To say this is the fault of the masks is foolish. A mask didn’t kill Mr. Ames. Mr. Eels killed Mr. Ames in a moment of blind rage. The very essence of this issue is the human reaction to outside stimulus. If we are to remove the reaction, we must make the stimulus as normal as possible. Should the masks persist in Seattle, and it would be laughable to think they will leave, the best recourse is to incorporate them into the system that is available. Many of them are somehow stronger, somehow faster. They are capable of feats that border on the superhuman. Quite frankly, they are capable of more than our average law enforcement will ever manage. When the world is collapsing around us, as it is wont to do of late, the masks are the ones first to the scene to fix it. They are first to the scene to help. I, on a whole, find the masks bordering on the reprehensible. I do not agree with what they do, but I will defend to the death their right to do it. Where the police fall short, the masks rise above, rise triumphant. It is a pitiable man who does not use the assets available to him. — A. Morgenstern |