Things Haven't Changed That Much...

This week we've seen the darkest of human nature. The creature that lies inside each of us has come to roost in those who conceived and carried out the acts in Boston.  The people who did these acts have not come forward and may never do so, but the people of Boston will remember the day it happened and they've come together as Americans often do in tragedy.

What has journalism become but a shoddy mix of jumping the gun and posting things that are fabrications and lies of the sort that in other countries would be punishable by death, but we don't do that in the States, because it's not who we are. We point, laugh and other journalists point and ridicule them.

Someone said that the world is more violent than it was when they were younger, I disagree. I believe it's just as violent, we just don't have the filters we used to have.

We see the things on the TV, our smartphones and internet and it comes instantly. The explosion of the plant in Texas is a perfect example. The man who took the video that is making its rounds around the internet was posted shortly after the explosion, but things are more violent now?

I remember watching the Berlin wall come down, the aftermath of Oklahoma City, Reagan giving his speech in front of Brandenburg Gate and the time Gorbachev was held hostage by his own party.

These moments are no different than the ones we see now, they're just diluted by the passage of time.

We get information faster than we have in the past. The destruction is the same, but we're getting it a faster rate than we would have twenty years ago.

Without the advance of technology we'd still be waiting to hear about these things. I'm glad I've seen the things that have happened in Boston, not because it's a tragedy, but because it reminds me of the will of evil men to do unspeakable acts in the name of what they think is right.

Americans have dealt with evil men before and evil acts, but just as we have before our spirit and our will to push on and push through to another day and to stand in front of the sun on another day, another year makes us who we are and what we believe we stand for.