Ginny over at Chicago Boys has yet another one of her very powerful blog entries

http://www.chicagoboyz.net/archives/002166.html#more

Her work is strong enough to stand for itself, but she also makes excellent use of referential work by others. I highly recommend reading her blog entry, but one of the works she referenced contained words that stopped my in my tracks. From Infandum, By George W. Rutler,

http://www.crisismagazine.com/november2001/feature5.htm

contained the following:

“On a train a few days after the attack, I sat next to a teenager wearing the ritual garb of his atomistic tribe; backwards baseball cap and such. When I recounted how rescuers had kept rushing into 240,000 tons of collapsing ironwork without any apparent thought for themselves, he replied in a voice coached by the sentinels of self-absorption: “They must be sick.” It will take more than one September day to humanize a generation.”

(Full disclosure: I have taken a small liberty with the above quote by changing a hyphen to a semicolon. I did so because I couldn’t easily figure out how to [revent the hyphen from being converted to a question mark.)