Berrigan battles the ‘social numbing’
By Ron Hunt
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Daniel Berrigan calls it "social numb
ing."
This "murderous indifference" to the
value of human life in America prompts
Berrigan to ask, "What is happening to
our people?”
As an example, Berrigan talks of his
trial in rural Pennsylvania where he and
seven others were prosecuted for tap
ping the nose of a nuclear warhead with
a household hammer — a tiny moral rap
against against immense immmorality of
nuclear arms
The conviction was expected, but the
trial process was shocking, he says A
"language of moral evasion" was used
by General Electric employees on every
level, from guards to top researchers,
Berrigan says None of them mentioned
the word “bomb,” "nuclear" or "war
head " Ever
“They would close their briefcases.
close their hearts, go home and call it
living."
Closed hearts: the gut level of a society
that rivals Nazi Germany in its use of
euphemisms.
Checks and
balances
For example, more than one million
human beings are slaughtered each year
under the label “fetus." Closed hearts
are the basis for America's growing
romance with the assumption that "un
productive and unprofitable" people
should not live.
Social numbing results not only in
screening off reality but in viewing dis
senters as "abnormal." Berrigan tells of
Pascal's parable about a group of people
lost at sea The navigator keeps saying
that the boat is heading north by north
west. But after several days at sea,
someone discovers that they are actually
heading south, and he cries out the truth.
How will most of the people react?
Berrigan predicts the dissenter would be
thrown overboard by the people being
deceived. Is it better, he asks, to be lied
to in security than told the truth which
disturbs?
The church, says Berrigan, needs to
be heard because it has vision — pro
human, decent, non-violent. Faith is pit
ted against the "various forms of despair
on the market these days.”
But he points out that various parts of
the church has capitulated to the culture
— by keeping religion separate from
everday life — and is afraid of ‘‘real
religion and real politics.”
Faith has not only given Berrigan the
moral grounding for his protests, he
says, but has also has kept him from
despair — and from succumbing to the
"social numbing" he combats.
Maybe it’s time to let the numbing wear
off and feel the pain.
Daniel Berrigan
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