Not sure what to make of the fact that most of the Penn State talk over the past week has been about Joe Paterno. Not sure why the flurried tenure of this story seems to have lasted about as long as it took to come to a decision about Joe. Maybe I’m not in tune with the media coverage enough to catch what all’s still being said out there. The impression I get though seems to be that the central plot line in all of this is the career and reputation of the head coach…and I can’t quite figure that one out.
Why so much outrage over what happened to the victims but very little expressed sympathy for the victims? Why are millions of not-really-affected readers and commentators so vocal about justice? Why are they playing the physician – prescribing remedies of healing for the victims…and why is it again that healing always necessitates increasing the pool of suffering? Why do I feel like talking about the cross (with its innocent victim suffering so the aggressors wouldn’t have to) at this point would be callous nonsense?
I’ll spare you whatever opinions I might have on Joe’s job. More interesting to me is how our culture (how I) absorbs and dresses the wounds of wickedness.
