The Clearing

...make them policemen.

This is a scheme I thought was already being implemented, judging from the tales I have heard from friends and acquaintances about how rude and boorish some of the traffic cops they have encountered can be. The perceptive ones realize that some cops use such encounters to satisfy their primitive sadistic need of having another human being at their mercy. Now I know what career your average schoolyard bully should, when the time comes, choose--a job where he is required to make people experience fear. I don't think I would have written down this seemingly fantastic thought/insight had I not come upon this news report about rioting cop candidates.

Labels: social issues