The Fault, Dear Brutus Is Not To Be Found In Our Selves,

But In Our Glorified, Diabolical Cultural Structure and Systems
by Edwin L. Young, PhD
February 26, 2009

In Shakespeare, Cassius says to Brutus, “It is not in the stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.”  I boldly turn Cassius’ pronouncement on it head.

Here is a horrible irony.  Just as I feel sad for the unjustly treated youth, I also feel sad for the Pennsylvania juvenile judge and all perpetrators like him who abhorrently betray our youth to preserve and advance their status in the perverted power-driven, money-groveling structures and systems of our culture. 

Sitting at the cross lights in a luxury vehicle, someone, somewhere, watches the long train of limousines in a funeral procession for a deceased, wealthy, status figure of the community.  An elaborately sculpted tomb awaits the deceased.  Here the deceased will remain to be revered and envied in perpetuity.  How many viewers will sell their souls to buy such a magnificent tribute to their corrupt, inimitable, shallow, successful life?  These, like such viewers everywhere, are consumed, without conscious awareness, by our glitzy, guile-governed, power obsessed culture. 

We see examples of such anti-heroes on the television and regard them with revulsion.  All the while, every citizen has been infected with and equally practices a self-delusion that turns their inner, barren, death fearing, lost souls into their own pitiful variety of a duality of corruption concealment paired with a false-modestly displayed self-exaltation.  It is a horribly ironical truth that cause is not to be found in their persons, not in their willful malevolence, but rather in a form of cultural osmosis that surreptitiously soaks their souls up into our glorified, diabolical cultural structure and systems.