Being good is not in fashion. At least not in America, where notions of puritanical hypocrisy taint any claim of virtue as suspect, probably self-righteous, and perhaps even secretly malevolent. For many high school students, Arthur Miller's The Crucible remains the defining work for such judgments. But then came Columbine and a host of other tragic and horrific examples of being bad, or to put it accurately, being evil. "Don't be Evil" goes the Google mantra, and we all nod. Who could disagree
Being good is not in fashion. At least not in America, where notions of puritanical hypocrisy taint any claim of virtue as suspect, probably self-righteous, and perhaps even secretly malevolent. For many high school students, Arthur Miller's The Crucible remains the defining work for such judgments. But then came Columbine and a host of other tragic and horrific examples of being bad, or to put it accurately, being evil. "Don't be Evil" goes the Google mantra, and we all nod. Who could disagree…
