Time to get up from the canvas and face our destiny

[GoldenThunder]

"We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism.” –Thomas Jefferson

This is not a very envious position to be in. It’s hard to defend reason when so many are driven by powerful interests to destroy it. It’s very likely we just haven’t suffered enough. Those Great Depression scenes orated in brilliant and stark detail by a dying generation simply haven’t yet arrived en masse to our cozy little oligarchy. Change isn’t brought about by fancy speeches or ideologies. It’s brought about by natural forces like famine, war and disease. We need to have the humility to understand that if this ship is going to hit the rocks, we’re going to need to know where the life rafts are. We have to save something good about us, our sense of decency, of freedom, of justice, of love. It is all of these things and so many others that truly give us a sense of the sacred that guide us every day. They are all things that we must defend. In these soon to be terrible times, we must defend them with everything we got. It is our destiny.