and certainly more poignant than most.

{sigh}

None of the stats about this epidemic of young people offing selves, begin to address the significance. If the immediate cause is an overdose of Pride, then it is of a Puritan sort - but that doesn't much square with the usual skepticism of the young (either).

Perhaps we need a Murican Housman to attempt to delve into the qualities of our culture which.. contribute to the recent increase of suicides, down into the teens - amidst all the current pseudo-wealth and noise.

It must be unbearably sad to have such close connection to a 'canary' (a sensitive One), while in the mineshaft -- nobody's yet looked in the cage and noticed this local proof that ~ "there's methane all over the place".



Ashton