Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, however, this evil is more insidious, more present and more destructive than ever before. The hatred and prejudice of some groups towards other groups has rapidly expanded into a hatred for all but the self. No longer confined by the simple boundaries of racial or sexual difference, today's new prejudice--modern America's new hatred--does not discriminate. The individual is the insider, while all others are outsiders...
These "others" are an affront to one's ability to find "happiness" through self-determination. They are an obstacle that must be at least overcome, if not eradicated. This is not mere "self-interest" or selfishness. Instead, self-preservation and self-determination have become pearls of great price and violence has already anointed by some as the means with which to attain these desired ends...
Sometimes we realize but persist in our errors, in our mad self-love, and attempt to hide this selfism run amok, this violence, thereby making it all the more insidious. We look into our souls, and much like Dorian Gray's portrait, do not like the rancor and decay we see within. We then compound our errors by speaking different names for our actions, filling in well with the trends of political correctness. Witness the phenomena of "collateral damage" and selective reduction...
...secret self-portrait is a painting of a man standing alone upon a mountain peak. All others lie below him, dead or no longer able to climb...
Will W. Erickson '00-'01, a campaign organizer, told the crowd in a speech that he was missing a Literature and Arts C section that would be discussing Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait to Gaugin," which hangs in the Fogg Art Museum...