What pious hypocrites we have all become

Jun 12, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I think that all of us, almost without exception, are utter sanctimonious frauds. Elaboration follows.
A man or a woman engaged in dangerous words in a more accommodating time is made an example by those who presumably never uttered a slur in their pure and perfect lives. Not a single one of any kind whatsoever. Is somebody taking me and the rest of the world for jackasses? Not even a moment of rare weakness and anger. Why is such hypocrisy allowed to stand? I am appalled that American, European and increasingly copycat Guyanese are part of the modern inquisitorial nobility and flourish with these patented frauds and pathological deceptions. I thought we had folks honest enough and principled enough to acknowledge that we can be all too human and too rash; succumb to flashes of anger, to barbarisms of uncontrolled meanness and gothic darkness. Saints can be loutish and brutish; woundingly so. I refuse to accept such deviousness that brooks no dissent that seeks to overpower contrition, any voice of reason of wrongdoing, and progressing. We have to grow up, be truly enlightened and transformed, and not let past excesses so consume that some blood must be spilled. We rail against the punitive, but will not hear of the rehabilitative for serious errors from decades-old history.
I make no exception for aged sexual predations; I could for those ousted for the raunchy and insult, what is now absolutely off-limits. We live in today’s unreal world, where I (and the whole world) must surrender to the fallacy that current denouncers (white, black, Indian)-whose sensitivities are so shattered, so offended-have never uttered one such racial or sexist barbarisms. Never of what is found so offensive today. I confess to having so failed in some respects; I have a long time ago, in moments of rage and disgust. Though rare, they shouldn’t have been. Whether they were about a certain kind of lifestyle orientation, a momentary lapse of judgment, part of furious retaliatory thrust for some malice returned with doubled vehemence in the combustion of overheated moments. Since it is confession time, I admit that this was reserved for forgettable occasions when pushed to the edge, and lack of self-control resulted. Regret, yes; excuses, no. Wisdom comes. I further admit that such recklessness and immaturity have been all but eliminated. Still, everlasting discipline, care, and patience must be guiding stars, if I am to reach still higher ground.
We have ranking politicians in this country that live a different orientation, whether in the closet or openly, I accept them for what they are: fellow human beings. They are people whose aura and attributes speak to what I have serious issues with-some ethical, some racial, some sexual, some class, some misogynistic, all inhuman – but I learn to live with, criticise, differently. To understand even, yet neither appreciates nor tolerate. But I will not jump on the bandwagon with the gotchas so prevalent, gleefully embraced; thus, surrounding mobs of accusers live lies.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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