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I cannot cope with the news coming in from Nola anymore. It eats away at me, even out here in Arkansas, where I tried to hide from the world. But I guess the world is a little too big to run from.
I try very, very hard to avoid thinking about it.
I keep thinking about what Bhuddha of Swissvale told me when I first started re-examining the central pillars of my lifestyle early last year. How some people argue, "why would you want to bring a child into a world as rotten to the core as this?" BoS suggests an alternative view, thinking of it as raising, training and indoctrinating a fresh generation of soldiers in the ever lasting struggle between good and evil.
If only the apathetic, the careless, the power-hungry bear children. If only the two-faced teach children, if only morally superior prescriptivists provide moral guidance to children....if all of us with enough common sense to see the bad in the world and the strength to try to stop it, if we do NOT educate and encourage a fresh generation to continue on after we leave, then what else can we expect?
I looked him in the eye, over the counter of China-made silver trinkets bearing the talismans of my gods, the frown lines already beginning to deepen in my face, and said, I'm just trying to protect my little piece, okay? I've drawn my line in the sand, and keep it out of my borders. Isn't that enough?
"And after you leave? What happens to your little homestead then?"
I guess it gets washed out with the tide.
I try very, very hard to avoid thinking about it.
I keep thinking about what Bhuddha of Swissvale told me when I first started re-examining the central pillars of my lifestyle early last year. How some people argue, "why would you want to bring a child into a world as rotten to the core as this?" BoS suggests an alternative view, thinking of it as raising, training and indoctrinating a fresh generation of soldiers in the ever lasting struggle between good and evil.
If only the apathetic, the careless, the power-hungry bear children. If only the two-faced teach children, if only morally superior prescriptivists provide moral guidance to children....if all of us with enough common sense to see the bad in the world and the strength to try to stop it, if we do NOT educate and encourage a fresh generation to continue on after we leave, then what else can we expect?
I looked him in the eye, over the counter of China-made silver trinkets bearing the talismans of my gods, the frown lines already beginning to deepen in my face, and said, I'm just trying to protect my little piece, okay? I've drawn my line in the sand, and keep it out of my borders. Isn't that enough?
"And after you leave? What happens to your little homestead then?"
I guess it gets washed out with the tide.