Maybe I am out of tune with the age. Maybe I need to read more than I do to get the complete picture. When I read The Arizona Republic I feel I get the slow drip, drip of quiet partisanship. Where does this newspaper stand? Is it just sinking quietly into the quicksand of indifference? Is there any journalistic life left in its opinions and the way it covers the news? Perhaps it doesn't care. Perhaps its journalists are just looking over each others' shoulders to try to see who will be the next to go? Is the newspaper on its last legs as it confronts the digital revolution? Does integrity not matter any more? Is the truth just a thousand differing opinions about this and everything else. Open up the economy? Let some more people die. Better they die trying to make the economy work. What's a few thousand deaths compared to the health of the economy?

Maybe this is the precursor to a Brave New World, and of the way we need to live in the future - no pouring CO2 into the air, unpolluted air to breathe, caring about each other's welfare and the welfare of our families, caring about the health of our environment, distributing excess to the needy. Perhaps it is time to choose.