I have been having thoughts lately. Dark thoughts. When I read of news in Wisconsin or Michigan; When I read of Antonin Scalia and his remarks on voting rights; When I read of the erosion of women's rights; When I read of the systematic privatization of education and everything we hold in the public trust; When I read of the destruction of labor rights; When I read of all these things, I my thoughts are not of things Gandhi would have done, but rather things that John Brown would have done.
I posted that in a comment recently:
There are times lately when I feel (16+ / 0-)
less like Gandhi and more like John Brown.
Am I wrong?
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." --M. L. King "You can't fix stupid" --Ron White -6.00, -5.18
by zenbassoon on Fri Mar 01, 2013 at 06:13:19 PM CST
And we all are feeling this anger and righteous fury at the actions, especially at the state levels, of these lawmakers.
But then I stopped and thought of something.
What about Them? What about the far right?
Misguided as it may be, they also must feel this same way about things that we do. And so my thoughts went something like: If John Brown is held up by those who believe in social justice, who do the others hold up? Or do they hold him up as well?
Do the Tea People also believe they are in the same struggle we are in?
You've heard them spout (to us) perverted and twisted misinterpretations of what people like Dr King and the Kennedys have said to justify their beliefs. You've heard and seen their rewrites of history in order to fit their beliefs.
And the real (to us) truth is just as perverted to them as theirs is to us.
Think about that for a minute.
It seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance.
It's just about come to this.
That we hear one set of words but divine two completely different meanings from them. For just about everything.