Re: Email bomb-dropper. I almost wrote back something very nasty, such was my state immediately after. When I had calmed down I composed a super nice but pointed response, then decided not to send it. In the end I was happy to just drop the whole thing (turn the other cheek, as it were).

I’m sorry, but I must go on. Religion(!), from the word religate–bind up, connect…, actually does very little to bind or connect people. Instead it segregates and isolates people from the world, from their own accountability to others in this world and, I think, it creates a sense of false, moral superiority that breeds apathy. The exact thing religion ought to be fighting!

I do think we are going through a time of insensitivity. But, alas, I try to stay hopeful. If we must learn life’s lessons through the media, then I am at least happy to report that I have seen some meaningful film as of late. Here are the few examples that immediately spring to mind; Blood Diamond, Lost Boys of Darfur, Music From the Inside Out, Surfing For Life.

Be hopeful. When someone is dull and rude try not to get angry. Try, instead, to be honest. Tell that person how his or her actions have affected you. Ranald, write back to that asshole, email bomb-dropper and tell that person (ever so politely) how your day was ruined for worrying about the decrepitude of all humanity.

You are providing a service and finding consumers less than sensitive to your humanness in this (I think), and Gordon is saying that the humans providing services to him — and dehumanized in this particular way (?) — pass on their alienation and indifference.