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BRAVE
NEW CIVILIZATION
Human history has
unfolded as a long and exciting drama. Bloody too. People are growing
like lion cubs--sharpening tooth and claw upon one another--toward an
adult brother (and sister-) hood.
Of course it has all
been unfair; as we students stoically learn nature's gift of language
the hard way. Folks have understandably abused this gift in the
educational process. Both Republicans and Democrats cleverly obscure
obviously whole
truths with carefully selected partial
ones, for example; in cosmic dance around elephants
(while taking "cheap shots" at one another).
The same kind of
rhetoric--one-sided advocacy--has long led, of course, to war! (Mainly
over verbalized beliefs.)
Madness
Photo
Credit: Rt Gladius/CAS lberia catalog
Human courage has been
developed by sheer survival of the spectacle--toward the greatest
version yet demanded--to conquer ourselves and thereby make peace on
earth. Shakespeare provided a guiding vision. His TEMPEST symbolizes
the rhetorical quarrels (within and) among ourselves which have been
inevitable in the course of human development.
At the closing
resolution--peace among the players--his immortal vision was voiced:
What
a brave new world
To
have such people in it.
Washington Statue at Washington University in St. Louis
Photo
Credit: Washington University e-Record
© Jim McCord
August 31, 2004
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