Which Arc of History Are You On?
Says the New Yorker: “The conflict over Stand Your Ground isn’t simply a matter of race; it’s a matter of differing trajectories in history and their implications in the present.”
Heavily edited, history is re-told by the winners. So are you getting traction on your arc? Or feeling ready to fall off?
Stand Your Ground is law written by the NRA. It sells bullets. It reflects a swamp-law mentality of fearful retirees, withered prune-brown, checked into gated communities where people hide in ice-buckets. This arc will ossify to cracked shell on a cracker road strewn with Spanish Moss. When the arc of fear collapses, we the people win out.
Our next generation skipped a beat when it comes to hate. We gave that up after Vietnam; we got high and forgave them instead. We’ll do the same for the jihadi, psycho-babbled to submission with his seams busted by tantrum screamers.
Every morning we choose to salute the same-ol’ or be a page-turner in the American almanac. From Florida we hear the last gasp of the dinosaur. A decade from now, this kind of stinking-thinking will be a known carcinogen.
Flowers belong in the barrels of guns. Some day, all wars will be won this way, trigger fingers flattened by the press of humanity in new blue jeans. After we end bullying we cap the crap from bullies with bullets.
How? Speak out in community and call out fear for the coward that it is. Grow the rights of man, democracy, and Internet voting as fast as you can. Recall government of, for and by the people and remind the breathing what we’re all in it for.
It takes three generations to wash the stain of war from family fabric. Until then, honor the family, oppose racial profiling, promote nonviolent conflict resolution. Stock up on anti-bullying one-liners and jump in to crowd-fund our future.
Honor the right to have an opinion. Allow others to be wrong until they gain your insight. Argue and debate with good humor to improve you fate, instead of rotting in hate.
Better yet, draw a line in the sand in the shape of a circle. Why stand your ground on a piece of dirt rented from the last generation and due for improvement?
Heavily edited, history is re-told by the winners. So are you getting traction on your arc? Or feeling ready to fall off?
Stand Your Ground is law written by the NRA. It sells bullets. It reflects a swamp-law mentality of fearful retirees, withered prune-brown, checked into gated communities where people hide in ice-buckets. This arc will ossify to cracked shell on a cracker road strewn with Spanish Moss. When the arc of fear collapses, we the people win out.
Our next generation skipped a beat when it comes to hate. We gave that up after Vietnam; we got high and forgave them instead. We’ll do the same for the jihadi, psycho-babbled to submission with his seams busted by tantrum screamers.
Every morning we choose to salute the same-ol’ or be a page-turner in the American almanac. From Florida we hear the last gasp of the dinosaur. A decade from now, this kind of stinking-thinking will be a known carcinogen.
Flowers belong in the barrels of guns. Some day, all wars will be won this way, trigger fingers flattened by the press of humanity in new blue jeans. After we end bullying we cap the crap from bullies with bullets.
How? Speak out in community and call out fear for the coward that it is. Grow the rights of man, democracy, and Internet voting as fast as you can. Recall government of, for and by the people and remind the breathing what we’re all in it for.
It takes three generations to wash the stain of war from family fabric. Until then, honor the family, oppose racial profiling, promote nonviolent conflict resolution. Stock up on anti-bullying one-liners and jump in to crowd-fund our future.
Honor the right to have an opinion. Allow others to be wrong until they gain your insight. Argue and debate with good humor to improve you fate, instead of rotting in hate.
Better yet, draw a line in the sand in the shape of a circle. Why stand your ground on a piece of dirt rented from the last generation and due for improvement?
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