I have been watching one of those COP shows on our limited television satellite reception. The program basically is a constant repeat of police officers confronting , arresting, and counselling people who are out of control. Most of the people are out of control mentally and physically due to the consumption of too much alcohol and drugs.
Combine all that with the pretty much 'everything goes' attitude and one does have a recipe for what I deem to be debauchery.
Debauchery...such an interesting word. I looked it up. It means extreme indulgence in sensuality with reference to orgies; orgies which I assume are sexual in nature.
The debauchery that I see on the streets of Las Vegas on that television program seems foolish, foreign, and almost surreal.
I am going to suggest a further meaning to this unique word.
I suggest that it can be applied anytime when one's actions, words, and desires become focused on purely one's own wants and preceived needs no matter what the cost to another's rights, particularly the rights of the innocents in this world. Kony, a child kidnapper, abuser, and murderer, would then fall under the category of someone who engages in debauchery..creating untold pain, misery and irrevocable harm as a result of his crazed self indulgence and seemingly disregard for human rights.
I am also going to suggest that my new definition of debauchery applies to the actions of anyone, anywhere who wield their control either through finances, emotional blackmail involving self righteous unforgiveness, or just plain screaming unleashed bitter wrath, in order to control others, ultimately harming and fracturing relationships.
The pain, waste, and destruction in the self indulgent use of power, mixed with fear, immaturity and ignorance inherent in this type of debauchery is every bit as destructive to society as it is to the individual who exercises it; not unlike drug or alcohol misuse or wanton sexual activity.
These activities that qualify for the label of Penny's Debauchery is present in not only the warring factions throughout the world , but also is the cause of social injustices, loss of peace, and broken families, which can be traced right down as much as to my own actions as I suspect many of the readers' and beyond.
"How utterly futile debauchery seems once it has been accomplished, and what ashes of disgust it leaves in the soul.
--Albert Camus
Combine all that with the pretty much 'everything goes' attitude and one does have a recipe for what I deem to be debauchery.
Debauchery...such an interesting word. I looked it up. It means extreme indulgence in sensuality with reference to orgies; orgies which I assume are sexual in nature.
The debauchery that I see on the streets of Las Vegas on that television program seems foolish, foreign, and almost surreal.
I am going to suggest a further meaning to this unique word.
I suggest that it can be applied anytime when one's actions, words, and desires become focused on purely one's own wants and preceived needs no matter what the cost to another's rights, particularly the rights of the innocents in this world. Kony, a child kidnapper, abuser, and murderer, would then fall under the category of someone who engages in debauchery..creating untold pain, misery and irrevocable harm as a result of his crazed self indulgence and seemingly disregard for human rights.
I am also going to suggest that my new definition of debauchery applies to the actions of anyone, anywhere who wield their control either through finances, emotional blackmail involving self righteous unforgiveness, or just plain screaming unleashed bitter wrath, in order to control others, ultimately harming and fracturing relationships.
The pain, waste, and destruction in the self indulgent use of power, mixed with fear, immaturity and ignorance inherent in this type of debauchery is every bit as destructive to society as it is to the individual who exercises it; not unlike drug or alcohol misuse or wanton sexual activity.
These activities that qualify for the label of Penny's Debauchery is present in not only the warring factions throughout the world , but also is the cause of social injustices, loss of peace, and broken families, which can be traced right down as much as to my own actions as I suspect many of the readers' and beyond.
"How utterly futile debauchery seems once it has been accomplished, and what ashes of disgust it leaves in the soul.
--Albert Camus
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