Reader's Blog: Rethinking value of human life

There is something strange about 2018. I think that Yeats had the solution to its understanding. What happened may be best explained by quoting his ‘The Second Coming’:

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”