Right now I am on the road in Illinois, so I won’t have much time for posting. But earlier (as I tried to enjoy a cup of coffee at a local motel), my relative tranquility was suddenly interrupted by a man who walked into the hotel’s free continental breakfast area in the middle of highly sensational CNN coverage of the Ohio kidnapping case.
“Look at what WE have become!” hr exclaimed while looking about the room angrily. He then went on to blame it on taking God out of schools. The man was adamant and emotional, and I averted by eyes as he looked at me, for while I disagreed with his communitarian assessment, I did not want to get into an emotional argument with a total stranger who clearly thought everyone sitting in the room was somehow culpable.
But there us no denying that this “WE” stuff has a strong appeal. (See my various admissions to being an accomplice in some of “our” worst crimes, simply because it logically follows from the misuse of a pronoun.)
Should I plead guilty to child abduction?