Mankind is doomed, but not yet
The ongoing conversations in this newspaper’s Have Your Say column oftentimes veers wildly between the banal and the hysterical, and from the glumly dystopian to the cheerfully optimistic.
I take the view that those with the “we’re all doomed” tendency protest too much with their self-flagellating, flaccid conspiracy hypotheses and unproven statements. It is moreover easy for them to pontificate from the safety of their armchairs, dispensing faux wisdom like Onan’s seed falling on stony ground.
Time after time these people hoist themselves by their own petards, to borrow another phrase from Hamlet, yet blithely persist with their peddling of unhelpful mischief. This policy often extends to scapegoating entire sections of society, a tactic used here time and again to demonise people on religious or racial grounds.
Have we not seen all this before? Europe, as is often cited, plumbed the depths of depravity in living memory precisely by using this pernicious approach to pursue a fascist agenda. I would think there has been enough staring into the abyss by some contributors, and that they really do need to get a grip and rein in their par
