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Then what is the answer?– Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence,
and their tyrants come, many times before.
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose
the least ugly faction; these evils are essential.
To keep one’s own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted
and not wish for evil; and not be duped
By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will
not be fulfilled.
To know this, and know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand
Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars
and his history… for contemplation or in fact…
Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness,
the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man’s pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
— Robinson Jeffers
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
by Shel Silverstein
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When people finally figure out the truth do you think they will build gallows for all these criminals pushing this poison?
Or will they just have another hearing and blame it all on Trump?
When the reckoning comes, it will be ghastly.
When people finally figure out the truth, do you think they will build gallows for all the people who got half a million others killed through stupidity?
Maybe we wont have to build gallows at all. Maybe all our elites will come down with a case of “German Burgher Moment”
That’s the moment in April, 1945 when the upstanding civic leaders in Western Germany were confronted by Allied soldiers demanding to know how they tolerated that charnel house a few miles outside their town
And then when reply came “We didnt know”, the Allies gave them an educational field trip to the camp. And then, the following morning, when the Allies come back to their homes and ask, “So what do you have to say no-“, they discover that the Burgher has nothing to say because he and his wife … ummm … hung themselves by the rafters the previous night. Thats the German Burgher moment
I wonder if something like this is happenning now .. The Covid Dr Karen Moment — where our elites know they’ve done something monstrous to their fellow Americans but are too terrified to come clean, even to themselves
The exasperation we’ve experienced… watching family, friends and neighbors goose-stepping to their doom… has been eloquently expressed in this article.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/06/no_author/fourth-letter-to-my-vaccinated-friend/
As usual, the Babylon Bee is on it: “SESAME STREET – Reports have confirmed that beloved Sesame Street resident Elmo died unexpectedly this morning just a few hours after receiving the COVID vaccine. ‘Elmo not feeling so good,’ Elmo reportedly said just moments before collapsing. Officials concluded the cause of death to be ‘unknown’ although medical examiners claim he died of massive heart failure due to Myocarditis – a disease almost never observed in 3-year-olds like Elmo.
‘It’s important to remember that our friend Elmo’s death had nothing to do with the COVID vaccine, which is safe and effective,’ said Big Bird to reporters. ‘There is growing evidence that Myocarditis is caused by climate change. That’s why you need to eat bugs and stop using SUVs, kids!'”
https://babylonbee.com/news/elmo-dies-of-myocarditis-after-receiving-covid-vaccine