Can Christ child save us from this disease?

But I live here and cannot claim exemption from the taint of this moral aberration as much as anyone else, being part of the society, and could even become its victim as in the instances above, much as so many others have in their dayto- day living.

The practice of bombing supermarkets to profit from that action continues on apace and the headline in a daily newspaper screams, “Elderly woman, 84, abducted, robbed and thrown out of a car”.

I have chosen these two instances, for the first reflects a pattern of behaviour totally out of sync with civilized behaviour and in the other, “age” cries out for compassion from even the most brutal of criminals.

The question to ask is where do we go from here faced with this level of moral degeneracy.

One ray of hope is that we have the chance to say “thank God” when the day is done and we are able to live to see another.

But Shannon Banfield did not nor did Sean Thomas on Queen Street and maybe when we least expect it our turn will come like with the four criminals waiting for the Transport Commissioner on Thursday night. Good Lord, he is the commissioner, a symbol of the law supreme, about whom the average criminal should think twice.

But criminality has reached the nadir in the mind set, so that commissioner or no commissioner, high or low, rich or poor, you are just someone to be preyed upon — humanity preying upon itself “as monsters of the deep” (King Lear).

But it’s not here alone. It seems it’s the way in the world for there seems no restraint about bombing hospitals in Aleppo or Yemen, or fire-bombing buses with escaping refuges from Aleppo or maiming and dismembering the children.

What is happening in TT is a symptom of that disease and unless the mind experiences a psychological reversal through education to counter this reversion to the worst in us, not even the Christ child can save us Dr Errol Benjamin ebenjamin522@ hotmail.com