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Dadygoose Member
since 2010-01-01
Posts 162A Communist country |
Rebellion Gandhi did not lead a law-abiding movements of Indians out of bondage. Washington did not lead an army of law-abiding Americans against the Crown. Lincoln defied the will of Congress Defied the edicts of the Supreme Court, Even suspended portions of the Federal Constitution itself, To ruthlessly crush Confederate tyranny. Medgar Evers did not lead Legions of law-abiding southern black people to freedom. Over the centuries and time after time, Free and outraged people, rising in their righteous might, have driven death to tyrants. As we have done so many times before, Americans will topple tyranny again. And on another quiet morning, When this nation is attacked anew, a bleeding, angry people will know exactly what to do with the one who would bring us hope and change. Alas, it depresses me to think That no one else on Pip will understand this. So I really don’t expect to get replies. Probably just hate mail. May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t. George S. Patton |
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Bob K Member Elite
since 2007-11-03
Posts 4208 |
Hope and Change. In one of the original versions of the Myth of Pandora, I'm told, the text makes so interesting things clear that we view differently today. Whether we are right or the canny old Greeks were, I don't know. My preference is generally for the Greeks; they're less sentimental. The story is that Pandora stole the box from Psyche in which all the evils of the world were trapped. Pandora of course had to look — there are so few of us who can walk away from such a challenge as that, aren't there. Here's where the versions differ. The greatest evil of all was still in the box. Pandora closed the lid on that one in time; and the name of that Evil was Hope. Those old Greeks though of Hope as the greatest Evil. We are much more naive. We are also naive about change. Foolishly, we believe all change has to be for the better. The old Chinese knew better, as any close reading of the I Ching will tell you. One of the other things the The Book of Changes will tell you is that there is no way to avoid change; no matter how hard you attempt to avoid change, the change happens, and often in completely odd and unpredictable fashions. One of my favorites comes in the form of the Hexagram "Fire Under The Lake'?" Who can imagine fire under water? Yet we all have our underwater volcanoes to deal with, I suppose. The Elizabethans had a horror of change as well, which they called Mutability. If you thumb through the literature, you come on occasional poems devoted to their fear of Mutability and to the terrible things that come with it. |
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GBride Senior Member
since 2009-07-02
Posts 538 |
Hey there from the wind swept plains of Nebraska. Do you think that everyone out here in Pipland is a liberal fool? i'm wondering if your poem presupposes that we are under tyranny now. What you didn't get a vote to spend for your guy? You will be arrested and detained for working for your guy? That you will be sent to a work camp without representation in a court of law? The current president was elected by the people of this country. Okay, I didn't vote for him either, but I have to accept the result. Glad you got a chance to blow off some steam. I do that too once in a while. |
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