“It would be like flinging a porcelain vase, with already a crack in it, against a granite column. Never before had Hepzibah so adequately estimated the powerful character of her cousin Jaffrey,—powerful by intellect, energy of will, the long habit of acting among men, and, as she believed, by his unscrupulous pursuit of selfish ends through evil means. It did but increase (her) difficulty that Judge Pyncheon was under a delusion as to the secret which he supposed Clifford to possess. Men of his strength of purpose and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak.”
Excerpt From
House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why doth I choose to quote this passage of Hawthorne’s words penned, long ago?
Currently, we continue to wrestle with self serving, mean minded politicians, whose false words convince millions that skin color determines to which ‘caste’ one ‘must’ belong.
And the fact that these power-hungry human beings so easily convince millions of followers to spread the pandemic nature of Covid from coast to coast by reducing the variants (proven to kill many more of those who remain unvaccinated) to catching a cold—ignore the fact that colds fail to kill those who refuse to safeguard the lives of dearly loved family and treasured friends simply by wearing a N-95 mask.
I’ve come to believe that a horrific event within each next generation must come to be, which opens the eyes of one half of the world’s population to the terrifying fact that millions of people with whom we share this planet are truly sheep, who, having been easily led by a hard hearted shepherd, will turn on one’s neighbor, and with fully loaded gun in hand, shoot the innocent dead without so much as a moment’s remorse, afterward.
With a quick backward glance over the historical timeline of mankind, the veracity of today’s deeper truth must be more readily and consciously absorbed if you and I are to benefit from a sense of acceptance concerning the fact that within this world, which we share with millions of sheep in the guise of men and women, is the next generation of sheep, raised to think with herd mentality above sagacious individuality.
So, half of our world has not gone crazy.
Half of the young of our world have always been raised by adults raised by adults raised by adults, who numbering in the millions, have absorbed nothing of both sides of human nature vying for brain space inside of everyone’s head. And as children learn by mimicking—that which they see and hear most often is what we can expect most of them to grow up to become
And thus once again—the truth hurts—until—the truth sets us free of believing our generation to be any the worse of all that hath been borne by good hearted spirits who—having placed their faith in educating their young to embrace open minded, positively focused Solution-seeking skills, had had less knowledge to work with than is true of educators, today, concerning how best to better the lives of one and all. And just as our grandchildren’s generation will tap into intuitive wisdom that escapes the minds of most people organizing marches in hopes of creating change for the better, today, our historic time line dictates that illusive changes for the better will surely manifest within a generation yet to be born.
That, my friends is the gist of my classic story of human endurance, and with intuition serving as my guiding light—I’m sticking to it.
Annie
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