This may be our last contemplation. There is no
real reward for composing thoughtful comment when language is mostly
dying.
It is true for everybody except us, but we
haven't settled in well with the texting glossary: "bec", "h8", and "b4", y'
know.
We were never weaned off of poetry. The fact
that universally accepted master poets, novelists and essayists from other
countries have chosen English for their masterpieces certainly counts for
something---(Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky and Jorge Luis
Borges are four such.)
With the possible exception of John Milton's
Areopagetica and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, the most
stiring paens to Liberty have been cobbled from personal experience and pain
by black-and-white Americans from Frederick Douglass and Thomas Paine to the
Roosevelts and JFK (Ted Sorensen).
But an old friend has called me to monitor a
video clip of a Seattle "protest" in which a woman who claims to be a
"preschool" specialist educator screams F-bombs and calls for mass murder
including a presidential assassination.
And she does it with apparent impunity.
We who retain a smidgen of sanity can of course, click this mierde off and make a stab at sanitizing our memories and souls.
But the fact is that knowing that multiples of this evil are abroad is instructive to our safety.
Let us hope that this woman and everyone who
shares her vehemence will continue to "protest" in like fashion, and with
regularity.
According to surveys published before and after these indelicate events, our side (SANITY), gains adherents, even from her "side" (the would-be murderers') as they loses with every such profane, inhuman "protest" !!
Crying jags and Pelosi pleas that a
colleague misrepresent himself as a Muslim have no effect at all. Apparently decency still "rules" in our
nation. But decency alone will not save us from ignorant butchers.
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