You know what I mean. Of course I realize that a lot of comforting imagery and several parables would have to change, too. But I think it would be worth it. And I think a stronger image might be more appealing to executive types and successful tycoons. We are living in pretty difficult times right now.
Terrible things happen every day.
People are doing bad things to each other. Road-rage has become an ordinary coupling of words in our vocabulary, immediately translated by the hearer to mean that someone got in another person s way on the highway and was shot, often to death, by the offended party. Bodies are found in parks and along roadways, people murdered and discarded. Children kill parents. Cities riot over perceived racial injustices.