07-07-2016, 07:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2016, 07:42 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(07-05-2016, 08:06 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I have to admit that it is amazing to me that some folks seem determined to live in the dark ages.
(no, I don't think that includes me)
The Dark Ages? No. That's not where I think you're at.
The Summer of Love? Maybe.
It's just about a given that lots of folks believe their own culture is the best of all possible cultures. It is very natural that individuals will want to share and spread their culture, their values, their way of looking at the world. It might take the form of preaching to strangers, or trying to prohibit certain guns.
From my point of view, style and civility matter. No matter what one is advocating, if one uses hatred and disrespect as a tool to convert the enemy, one ought not to expect to get very far.
But it is hard. No matter what culture one comes from, no matter what values one is trying to spread, no matter what flavor of love, peace and rock n roll one advocates, it's kind of hard, when the other guy is obstinate, ugly, insulting, demeaning, to resist grabbing him by the collar and shaking until all the (expletive deleted) is gone. That's not generally for the best. What would Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix do?
There are rock festivals, and then there are rock festivals...
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.