Collective Mourning for John F. Kennedy, Not for Wesley LePatner

Maybe it was a spillover from WWII when there were absolute values. The Nazi were bad. Sacrifices were necessary to support the military. Pray for the US troops. 

We Boomers ran with all that, making all the moves authority figures such as high school guidance teachers hammered were the only ways to proceed forward. And forward we went, the luckiest generation in America

Now, we are not so sure. Neither are the clients for tarot-reading sessions with me. 


Increasingly they ask me about right and wrong.  Essentially, they come to me for "permission" how to live their lives with other human beings, be it a romantic partner, a boss or a competitor. They are human beings without a code of absolutes to turn to. 

Predictably then, there is no collective mourning for the mother, wife and productive executive - Wesley LePatner - who was murdered in the Midtown Manhattan massacre. There was, though, when father, husband and US President - John F. Kennedy - was murdered. A nation wept in front of our television sets. Our hearts broke when little John-John saluted. 

Instead, here in 2025, there are those who position and package LePatner as a symbol of corporate evil. 

After all she worked with Blackstone's real estate. Hell, that's one source of increasing homelessness. And how about the little people who can no longer own a home. There's a plea to look into any correlation between what Blackstone is up to and the affordability of the traditional American Dream of purchasing a single-family home.

Also, damn it, LePartner spent too much for her children's private school. Couldn't that money have been used to fix some of the financial inequities around. An elite, she attended Yale. That's a woman who had too much.

Anyone, any institution, any model of business can be promoted on social media as a symbol of evil. That mob talk can intimidate others from disagreeing. Also, there are no absolutes to base the opposition on. 

On Sundays at the First Unitarian Church in Toledo, Ohio I participate in an ethics workshop. I admit that I'm confused. What I do know, though, is this: There are human beings. Not symbols. Not abstractions. We also are human beings. And holding on to our humanity is hard work in 2025. 

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