February 22, 2011
Lara Logan
Yet occasionally something happens that is so stark, so shocking, so angering to our latent genetic consciousness as a people, that we are shaken out of this deep and lingering stupor and we actually, honestly, begin to consider.
All too often this leads to reconsidering, followed by a viewer’s most grievous sin, questioning.
Because for all the talk, all the babble, all the incessant dribble of “sameness,” a good many Westerners cannot quite imagine under any circumstances being swept up into a “rape mob.”
For a day or so the media trotted out their leashed experts to convince the world that this was a crowd mentality. It had happened in New York during Puerto Rican Day, too. (But then, that proved the point.) To their credit, viewers didn”t buy their nonsense.
And just like that, Egypt disappeared.
Coverage has receded, abated, and withered away into five-minute recaps and sixty-second updates. It simply no longer exists as a televised event. What had been live coverage for twelve hours straight goes almost unmentioned a week later.
Make no mistake, there is still a crisis in Egypt, and much more to tell of that land. But you won”t hear it. Not unless you go looking. At the very least, it won”t be delivered to your doorstep anymore.
There are too many instinctive connections to be made. Perhaps all of this immigration from places such as the Middle East and other Third World areas isn”t so healthy for our way of life after all. Perhaps these people not only don”t share our values, they have “values” of their own so abhorrent that we would be shocked to learn how diametrically they conflict with ours. Perhaps what happened to Lara Logan is much more common than we are told and this was a glimpse into our future. Perhaps these are the results of allowing unregulated entry by people who approach the law, speech, government, and gender in a radically different way than we have been led to believe they do.
Those are questions best not dwelt on by the mere people of the West. Best not to get the natives all riled up with unpleasant realities. Their governments and media have thought it all out for them.
Soon we will all be back to oneness.
Getting a dictatorship overthrown is a simple task when compared with rousing a docile Westerner. But if anything can do it, it will be the grotesque barbarism committed upon Lara Logan.
And that is why we will hear no more of Egypt.
