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Sunday's thought by cartoonist Brooke McEldowney needs to be required reading!

 

 

CIVILIZATION ?

My television is littered with programs devoted to individual physical combat, from the scripted mayhem of the World Wrestling Federation, through traditional boxing matches, to the mean, bloody bare-knuckle battles taking place in steel descendants of the Roman Coliseum.

In addition, we have the supposedly less violent surrogates of American football and hockey, where mayhem is built into the activity.

My question is: how can we as a people consider ourselves civilized when one of our main entertainments is to watch both men and women standing in a small space, beating one another until one falls down senseless, often in a pool of blood?

We are no better evolved than the barbarians of two millennia ago!