Platitudes echo in our minds, my Mom used to be fond of saying, " you can only kill a brave man once, a coward dies a thousand deaths." (Which, for some reason, unbidden, would come the reminder "better to be a live chicken than a dead hero"...)
It is indeed the old 'fish or cut bait' debate. If the brave die defending their convictions then who will remain to fight tyranny?
If not us, who and if not now, when?
Worse, there has never been a real 'consensus' on how human affairs should be managed. Our civilization is circling the drain yet few think there is a reason to panic let alone complain.
Which is to point out that there are always those who don't want the apple cart upset, which resurrects another platitude, "better the Devil you know" (which may be okay for Murphy but it's killing the rest of us!) My own kids are curious examples of this last attitude...seems like Peter Pan is everywhere!
Yet denial won't save what currently passes for a functioning society. How sad is it trigger happy policing isn't a 'new' problem?
Again belaboring the obvious is all discussion of 'rights' and 'freedoms' take place after the old regime is vanquished and the new regime moves into it's rotting corpse...bringing us to the deeply disturbing reality that most 'revolutions' are 'hijacked' almost immediately after they 'succeed'...leading us to that inevitable conundrum of the names have changed but nothing else has.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
Um, writing is a solitary occupation and while one is composing, Silence is indeed 'golden', but this is a public forum and YOU are invited to share what you think.
The path forward is one we must share...let's try to flourish together rather than perish fighting over what is 'ours' in the first place...
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
It is indeed the old 'fish or cut bait' debate. If the brave die defending their convictions then who will remain to fight tyranny?
If not us, who and if not now, when?
Worse, there has never been a real 'consensus' on how human affairs should be managed. Our civilization is circling the drain yet few think there is a reason to panic let alone complain.
Which is to point out that there are always those who don't want the apple cart upset, which resurrects another platitude, "better the Devil you know" (which may be okay for Murphy but it's killing the rest of us!) My own kids are curious examples of this last attitude...seems like Peter Pan is everywhere!
Yet denial won't save what currently passes for a functioning society. How sad is it trigger happy policing isn't a 'new' problem?
Again belaboring the obvious is all discussion of 'rights' and 'freedoms' take place after the old regime is vanquished and the new regime moves into it's rotting corpse...bringing us to the deeply disturbing reality that most 'revolutions' are 'hijacked' almost immediately after they 'succeed'...leading us to that inevitable conundrum of the names have changed but nothing else has.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
Um, writing is a solitary occupation and while one is composing, Silence is indeed 'golden', but this is a public forum and YOU are invited to share what you think.
The path forward is one we must share...let's try to flourish together rather than perish fighting over what is 'ours' in the first place...
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
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