The selfish gene

Being a regrettably selfish person myself and aided and abetted in that pursuit by a world whose sole raison detre appears to be the nurturing of that selfishness I have to wonder where it all is going to end. The following excerpt is from a bleakly amusing story of naked Santa's in San Fransisco:

It is the world of what Kay Hymowitz calls the ‘child-man’ phenomenon.  It is an expression of men's loss of the life script that previously guided the transition to male adulthood via marriage and career.  It is the world of immature men portrayed in Seinfeld and by Will Ferrell, with its sort-of female equivalent in Sex and the City.  It is a world of autonomous adults and casual sex unencumbered by children or responsible parenthood. 

It was a celebration of a world without children, of what the recent report on The Revolution in Parenthood calls the worldwide trends in law and reproductive technologies that are leading to a redefinition of “parenthood in ways that put the interests of adults before the needs of children.

In a world where crimes against children used to be considered the very worst, we have 'deconstructed' our consciences against violence to children in general, by murdering millions upon millions of helpless babies; and we have carried out these atrocities via the most hideous of methods; literally tearing them apart.
Therefore; whatever illnesses, disaster, or misfortunes that come our way are, unfortunately, sadly deserved, and it is only by an all forgiving and beneficent Grace that any of us are still standing.

Perhaps those politicians who are so keen on saying 'sorry' to various groups of claimants for whatever imaginary or real 'victimizations' they believe they may have suffered, ought to consider; is that this is the time to really say sorry to the One they have caused serial grief too, and to whom this season used to be focused upon.

May this time be one of repentance, redemption and a return to true adult responsibility.