I was reading the May 13 issue of Fence Post - an agricultural magazine published in Colorado.
History can resemble a snowball on a downhill run . . .
Consequently, and regrettably, for the sake of what is the real truth, it is generally the latter that society chooses to feed upon. Nothing really fazes us anymore. We have become conditioned to atrocities that take place through a gradual numbing, embellished somewhat for sensationalism, maybe thinking to ourselves, Nothing could be any worse than that. Then, we get surprised, but not shocked. Actually, human nature has not changed a great deal since the carnivorous wave of civilization began eating its way from east to west, except what the west is today bears scant resemblance to the uncluttered stretches our forefathers were privileged to behold.