Madison Cawthorn Is Not An Outlier

[PatrickforB]

32. A thoughtful and spiritual post, indeed. Yes, Cthulhu.

The forces of chaos.

In the West we feel, have felt for centuries, that if we cannot measure it, see it, touch it, then it cannot exist. A philosopher/counseler friend of many years tells me that Aristotle won the debate over Plato.

Many say there is no Divine force. Yet I believe that this life-force is all things, transcends all things and is within all things. It is the great awareness in which all things exist.

It is conscious but passive.

Yet it does move, and we are its parts.

Your post makes me mindful of a conversation between Frodo and Gandalf in Bag End before Frodo had to set out on his perilous hero-journey. Gandalf was telling Frodo about how the Ring came to Bilbo after it decided to leave Gollum because its master, Sauron, was reaching out for it.

Why, Frodo quips, did the Ring go to Bilbo when an orc would have suited it better? Gandalf answers, "‘Behind that there was something else at work, beyond any design of the Ring-maker."

As in Tolkien's imaginary world, in our real one, there may well be forces beyond our ken, not explainable by our current science or world view. So many little mistakes in time. Coincidences. What ifs. What if Montezuma had not mistaken Hernan Cortez for Quetzalqoatl, the Feathered Serpent? What if the Spanish Armada had not been decimated by a great storm and had conquered England? What if Stalin hadn't had his stroke in 1953, and had precipitated a nuclear war with the West? What if Khrushchev hadn't blinked over the missiles in Cuba? What if Trump's coup January 6 had worked?

The list is endless.

We might be ok, after all. But we are not excused from doing all we can to oppose evil. And ultimately, our species is not excused from growing up.