“The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.” Plato
What Is Our Revolution? The games they play, sophiticated pettiness, a reduction to a complex immaturity of monopolising greedy children, bra snapping, hair pulling, soup spitting, thuggery loosed as legislature, how, or when, why, did we do that? Perhaps more pressing, what, is our revolution? ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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I love Plato’s quote. Right on!
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Yes!
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Pretended justice is everywhere. In more or less stringent form.
Legislature in many corners is – very aptly put – thuggery in guise. The richest US senator’s net worth is 500 million Dollars. 500. Millions. And no-one seems to bother to ask how he got them? On a senator’s salary?
Now, Revolution has me wary. I haven’t seen any that did not turn into a bloody mess.
By default I always go back to Gandhi and Dr King as the only possible option. Yet both were killed…
(Looking for a desert island somewhere… if you know of one…)
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My plan was to seek out a cave. But I like the desert island idea better. More sun, fewer bats.
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Yes, yes. Bats are a no-no lately.
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Bats have always been a no-no for me, along with snakes.
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Interesting. The way I was brought, both were part of the scenery. One had to learn to… “identify” and live with them. Particularly snakes. I have a story to write about a spitting cobra in Kenya… Coming up soon…
(And I’ve come across real big snakes in the South. (Of the Mason-Dixon line))
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With me, it’s some kind of elemental fear, I think. When we lived in Virginia, my daughter encountered a snake in the back yard. We fetched Mr. Etheridge from next door, who identified it as a cottonmouth and hacked it to death with a hoe. Needless to say, that episide didn’t help with my fear of snakes. My daughter, on the other hand, just took it in stride.
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A cottonmouth is bad news. Better hit first. I killed a couple along the way. And let many go. Now one reacts differently. I remember my little sister was always terrified of elephants… Which made some “encounters” a trial for her. Stay away from snakes. Safer. 😉
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Here they are a regular encounter, and most of ours are poisonous, but we are so used to them, and we have laws to protect snakes.
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I’d read somewhere about Australian snakes. And it is actually a good thing to protect them. They kill a good many “Nuisibles” not sure what the English word is? Pests? Like rodents, rats. They play a role in the ecosystem.
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That’s exactly so, they sure do, and they have declined due to broad-acre farming and urbanisation too, but 95% of ours are deadly poisonous, so steer clear. I take it Cotton Mouths are poisonous?
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They are. Apparently, not as much as I thought, but it’s belongs to the viper/rattlesnake family.
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Good enough reason by me 🙂
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Have no fear–I am staying away from snakes!
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One has to weigh the risk and if it’s poisonous I guess you have be protective. My youngest is a licensed snake handler and gets called to homes to bag and resettle them, not my thing.
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*shudder*
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I’m intrigued – sounds like a great read.
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Just a matter of finding (making?) the time. I’ll let you know.
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Yes, I have that desert isle dream too.
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It makes for a nice fantasy.
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It really does.
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O indeed, I’m not putting my hopes long term in revolution, it is as you say, but it’s like having a sneeze, need to clear the sinus’ 🙂 though Solidarnoss might be one.
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Solidarnosc was a good example. Thanks for refreshing my memory. I was in Europe then. With the Russian missiles just a few 100 klicks away. I even worked in the defense industry in the first half of the 80’s, so we had “insider” information as to the “risk”. Solidarnosc, the Poles, and the Pope did play a a major role. So did Gorbatchev. (He should have a statue in every European capital. He basically made the – unprecedented -choice not to shoot on civilians in Eastern Europe.
Stay safe.
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Yes what a great guy, there are statues worth having, but few erected yet.
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Everyone is fighting for themselves. The revolution depends on who you’re talking to – it all boils down to money, control, power – as always.
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Sadly, yes.
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Yes, money is the game these days, sadly, most of our politicians have grifted their fortunes.
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Wonderful quote to begin your poem Paul.
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Thank you Rupali.
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how, or when, why, what… very depressing.
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Yes, somewhat so, but a glint of hope
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I think of this quote: “The system isn’t broken, it was built this way.” All their yelling gets nothing done.
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So true. Last week i got personally very close to Plato’s quote. A horrible situation, makes me asking about the future well beeing of our country. Michael
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Yes, Bonhoeffer (who I admire) once pointed out that you have to choose the least harmful candidate out of a bad field.
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Yes, remember this too.
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Great poem
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Thank you so much.
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