As a young boy growing up, I enjoyed a variety of foods. I especially liked that evening meal, which offered a meat gravy that could be soaked into my bread. It was important that the gravy-bread was even at that last bite; not too much bread-to-gravy or gravy-to-bread ratios. Actually, that meal was a subtle lesson about life being more pleasant when we have balance-equilibrium.
In recent days, we note world-events unfolding in the Middle-East, which demonstrate the residues of of unsteadiness and instability from different cultural-tolerance as it 'lags' behind Internet-technologies. There seems to be too much gravy and perhaps not enough bread to sop-it-up!
Americans live in a society that tussles from time to time with the extent of our 'first amendment rights.' Our television comics, i.e., Letterman, Leno and others make fun of our government officials and we all laugh. We tease and speak candidly about Religious differences and give the speaker a pass or perhaps join in the chuckle about our own belief idiosyncrasies.
Today's Internet-speed, which allows a comment or film production to go around the globe in an instant is an amazing technological accomplishment but it obviously runs afoul of various cultures processing and subsequently accepting or rejecting intent. This is not the case because we don't know one-another THAT well and our suspicions causes the gravy-hate to run wide. We need that genius to come along and produce more bread of understanding and tolerance.
Of course, there is not enough grain to turn into bread to soak-up the gravy-flowing hate language of Pastor, Terry Jones (Gainesville, Florida), a self-trumpeted man of God and follower of the teachings of Christ who produced the inflammatory movie about another faith's Prophet! And so many innocent people die from the ignorance.
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