Where art thou? The Radio City Music Hall usher Gregory Peck in “To kill a mocking bird”. Spencer Tracy’s Clarence Darrow “Inherit the wind”, Hitchcock’s “Darrow for the Defense” Sears Roebuck heir, Leopold Loeb trial…
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The system is bereft of ideals yet our young people are amidst to aspirations and quality humans but when they get caught up with the marketplace realities, they sack their humanity and dreams,their mentors and parents espoused for them..
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Where are their role models? To define Cecil the captive lion, in Africa’s Zimbabwe protected haven? To scream out “Mercy mercy, have you no scruples, no conscience? “
To exploit in the mane of “sport”? to cannibalize? become a predator?
A once ferocious “King of the Jungle’s” vulnerability?
Unbelievable! The most precious value of all life(four legged?two legged?) is life itself, isn’t it? What more can humansidentify? endorse for his generation, no less those to follow?
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Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller walking his wall to his safari built home in Zimbabwe , pulling the drapes aside , turning to his wife “It’s a jungle out there, Jan e”
Conscious of Sigmund Freud’s “Beyond the pleasure principle” playing out.! Corrupting and emasculatinginnocence for the sake of sport?
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What a mirror to hold up to?
“I wake up screaming”….’Brother, can you pare dime’ or two?
Cecil’s double? Sabu’s elephant boy’s ivory….a rhino’s tusk?
August 4, 2015 The City that never sleeps
