Politics & Paradigms

At some point we are going to have to return to civility and a higher sense of decorum in regards to our national politic!

Children are now... and should always be off limits... "satire" included! These pseudo intellectuals with their witty retorts and insightful smugness need to be draw some generally accepted boundaries. That should be for both sides... those who make such stupid and malicious remarks and those who would exploit the comments!

Civil disobedience and debate are bedrock to the personality of our republic, but our nation's persona has spiraled so far beyond that! Civics, back when it was taught, educated every young American about the greatness of America but also about the sober realities of a nation built on a system of checks and balances that serve and protect We The People. Unfortnately, living in this new and hostile  vacuum where those are no longer taught, we have devolved to an environment where rancor, derision and division turned up to the hightest level drown out truth, liberty,  and civility.  It is very sad.

Any body (government) set against itself falls. We are at a crossroads... honestly, we may be beyond the pale... but that is a conclusion not yet written in some terms.  It reminds me of one of my favoite quotes...

"turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."       ( The Second Coming )  W.B. Yeats

I first read it in Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"  a novel that taught me extensively and very introspectively about paradigm shifts.

I see America much like Yeats probably saw his world in post WWI  1919 and as Achebe surely tried to help others see his changing world and culture during the colonial period.

Sounds depressing I know, but it's not.  Its a pause to understanding... and sobriety... ... and at some point,  civility.

Put another way...

If possible, as depends on you, live peaceably with all...             Romans 12:18

And there is even a way we an accomplish it...

...and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,   1 Thessalonians 4:11

Its really not complicated.... but it takes effort, commitment, and agreement...