Watched the movie “The Eagle” tonight. History has long fascinated me: men of honor, met on a field of battle, slain, have so much more in common that the mediocre middle, who believe nothing, choose nothing, and die in their bed, ultimately alone.
Oh, do we need to kill one another to live? Need we die to compose our unique melodies of our lives?
I watch history. I study history. So many seem to assume that history, sometime very soon, will end. What was, will cease to be. The enlightenment, freedom, the locus of perception on the individual, will be gone. In its place, an irrational rationalism, imposed by those who use the rhetoric of freedom, and who hate dissent.
Why?
Why must we assume that we all together cannot solve our problems? Goddamn it: we know how to invent things. We know how to power things. Global warming is complete bullshit, and yet we possess the ability to deal with the more likely reality: global cooling.
WHY NOT LIVE? WHY NOT LIVE WELL?
Ah, some whiskey, and some honesty. I never stop watching, but I do allow myself an occasional break.
I feel these things so strongly, it runs through me like a river. Why can’t we do better? All of us, the world over?
Answer: we can. Just get the idiots and the shitheads out of the way. Details: follow them, and you have my vote. Follow generic rhetoric: you are my enemy, even if your short term goals are the same.