Greetings, Dear Reader,

We’re going to keep this one brief because I have a long night ahead of me.

Speaking at this big event, and big events are not really my bag. I’m a small event guy. Backyard, barbecue, brews, my one and only babe.

Every now and again, though, the troops need assembling. They need rousing. For whatever reason, I keep finding myself in the position of doing the rousing.

Happy to do it. Onward.

THEY NEED THE FEAR OF GOD

The video is among the more heartbreaking to go viral on the internet recently. It happened just this week.

It shows a woman [[GRAPHIC]] in Chicago walking her two small children home from school. The oldest must be around eight, and the youngest no more than six.

From the moment the video starts, you know things will not end well. There are about 20 or so other, bigger kids, late elementary or middle school age. They’re the ones doing the filming. They’re yelling. There are slurs I don’t understand. I already have enough trouble understanding kids, but you don’t even need to break through the accents or the inner-city zoomer speak to know what’s coming.

The energy builds toward inevitable violence. The children cling to their mother. The crowd closes in, battering her. They rip the kids out of her grip and slam them to the ground. They slam the mother to the ground. There’s a brief shock of pure animalism when she hits the ground. There’s kicking, punching and screaming.

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Watching this, I felt like we as a society lost something we desperately needed to find again. Why were they filming this? Nobody yelled “world star” but you could feel the DNA in the moment. Would this even be happening if not for the ability to post it to TikTok or share it among clusters of “friends”?

It’s a mix of internet and wannabe thug culture that’s........

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