Are We Too Big For Our Britches ?

This blog post will end a four-week hiatus during which time we considered just winding up the 14 years of the Depot's existence with a funny story.

Surveying the landscape, the only funny thing we experienced was our own halting, befuddled gait.

Somewhere during the blogless weeks one of our inspirations teased us into considering "what would have happened to our nation if the rule of  Law had been suspended in Palm Beach County Florida in 2000 A.D (C.E.) if a handful of "Hanging Chads" had been adjudicated  to hang in a different direction !

We've never been excited by "Whut Ifff ?  or "Cudda-Wudda-Shudda-Hadda" speculation, for sure... But the desert wasteland visions provoked by such a wonderment parches our soul.

On the other hand, the United Kingdom's killing of little Alfie and the serious health threats of my dearest friend and a gallant former Boy Scout troop member have preoccupied our  waking and near-slumber musings.

There are too many instances of these "brain-dead" people accidentally surviving the arrogance of clinicians who really just do not know what they do not know.

Arguing about the "ethics" of life choices is fine exercise. But basing such arguments on "absolute" knowledge is a slippery slope which always seems to err on the side of a ghostlike 
evanescence of  "Thrift"-- saving time or money.

All of the intransigent ideologies that block personal relationships and provoke race and class divorcement can be traced to some conspiracy to devalue  individuality for the promotion 
of some supposedly facile groupthink that leads inevitably to sterility and dissolution of community.

It's probably too late, but in past centuries, humanity has been salvaged again and again by Renaissance or revolution based on the ineluctable complexity of the human mind and Société 
reaffirming faith in Liberty, Parity and Solidarity.

But first the Warriors must cease their venal exhortations and "lay down their swords and shields "Down by the Riverside to Study War no More..."

In a shrinking world community led by Solipsists-on-Steroid-Hubris, all claiming "Science" as personal and private  Ally,  this outcome is unlikely.