Ignorance in Heart Rocks?

The mind asleep creates monsters. The great Spanish genius Francisco Goya drew a series of paintings Horrors Of  War. If our children would have studied those, seen those at least in reproductions  we, the Americans most likely would  not have so many wars. Because whoever   had seen those and felt together  with the artist would  hate wars forever. That  feature  of the character has to be developed; it does not come on its own.  It comes with the mind  awake.  But that  is not  what our children are taught, not what the people  who rally now are taught either. So, the crowds of people with their minds asleep shout and howl that they are angry and mad and the werewolves on the podiums tell them that it is all- right to howl, it is all- right  to be mad.

All- right to be MAD? Since when insanity becomes us? But  that’s what they hear at the GOP campaign rallies right now; that’s the message from that Bride of Chucky Sarah Palin. Oh yes, the horrors of war had come here from that war in the Middle East and monsters are afoot. It is not Halloween- it is Hell.  Ignorance in Heart is Hell, the  real one, the one we develop ourselves.

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