HDT: "Men have become the tools of their tools"--
GC: In an instant I'm told of another horror there: another girl raped and hanged! It is like the US South was not so long ago--for the Blacks! Twain called it "the United States of Lyncherdom."
HDT: "If we have thus desecrated ourselves, the remedy will be by wariness and devotion to re-consecrate ourselves."
GC: You wrote of that. You used words like "sacred," and "re-consecrate" and "soul." But, nobody thinks like that now, nobody talks like that now" except tin-star preachers, passing around collection plates. I try not to be bitter" but it's a different world now.
HDT: "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." It's always a different world" and the same world. We struggle for enlightenment" and then we struggle to keep the light--and pass it on. "What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses of freedom only."
GC: Yeah" that's what I'm getting at. What the hell does freedom mean anyway? People are dying and killing for "freedom" and they're just puppets in a bloody maze.
HDT: "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
GC: That's what I'm getting at! That's what it's come to. The government is of that nature. My God, we went to war against Iraq! We killed a million people" because of a phony claim of "weapons of mass destruction." It was just so much flatulence! We wrapped it up in rhetoric and sold it to our sleeping masses. We hanged their dictator after a kangaroo trial, installed another--more corrupt and more incompetent!--and 11 years later it blows up in our faces. We made ourselves the Policeman of the World. Who voted on that? Our people shout out "freedom" and they don't know what the hell is going on!
HDT: "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
GC: That's the problem! Our goals have been rotten" and we're rotting from within! We can still fool a lot of people--cosmeticize the reality. Divert, divert, divert! Things happen fast, and faster, and there's never any re-examination. Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living." Well, there's barely time to examine anything now, and there's even less time to re-examine!
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