You beautifully express the ideals the majority of Americans strive for. There is one grave issue that this country seems unable to handle. Predatory wolves will always live amongst us, but when they worm their way into politics, the responsible leaders don’t know how to take them down. McCarthyism is just one example. He died or he could have gone on much longer.
Now there’s two of us. And add Jesus to the pep talkers. He said who followed would be greater. So far, no one has been as good, but the time is now, when apocalypse lurks, to awaken to what we were designed to be, loving creatures in an altruistic zeitgeist. So, what next? This morning I was thinking to go after the billionaires. New game. Go to where the power is. Even just think of doing what the world does. Advertise. Let them fund a massive worldwide ad campaign for us to become our better angels?
Journalist Bill Moyers expressed a milder but noteworthy call-to-arms after the 2016 election: “Journalist Bill Moyers’ comment on the article:
Much that we hold dear appears under threat. We will be asked in new and sometimes frightening ways, “What do we stand for?” “What do we care about enough to risk in ridicule, funding, a job, our lives?”
Many of us have not had to face such choices before. Sure, we act for what we believe in. We march. We write letters to the editor. We call our elected officials. We speak up at council meetings. We join committees. We donate. But at what risk? Often very little. That may change
The question isn’t what we’re willing to risk. The question is what we’re willing to lose—because some losses are irreversible. And history does not wait for the comfortable to grow courageous.
So what do we stand for? Not in theory. In practice. When it costs. When it cuts. When it wounds. When they come not just for your name, but your name’s meaning.
You beautifully express the ideals the majority of Americans strive for. There is one grave issue that this country seems unable to handle. Predatory wolves will always live amongst us, but when they worm their way into politics, the responsible leaders don’t know how to take them down. McCarthyism is just one example. He died or he could have gone on much longer.
Now there’s two of us. And add Jesus to the pep talkers. He said who followed would be greater. So far, no one has been as good, but the time is now, when apocalypse lurks, to awaken to what we were designed to be, loving creatures in an altruistic zeitgeist. So, what next? This morning I was thinking to go after the billionaires. New game. Go to where the power is. Even just think of doing what the world does. Advertise. Let them fund a massive worldwide ad campaign for us to become our better angels?
Good writing & living. I see deep similarities with my own path.
Wow. You’ve said it all basically. Wonderfully writtten and a beautiful message. Thank you for your heart and clarity.
I’m with you. The realists and cynics - so called - be damned.
Love love love this! Thank you
Fight.
Mark,
I hear every lovely word
of your song.
Like Whitman
you hear America singing.
You are in deep harmony.
So am I.
I am devoted
to bringing about
our new birth of freedom
as Lincoln called us to do.
We will build
a more perfect Union, Mark.
I'm with you.
Journalist Bill Moyers expressed a milder but noteworthy call-to-arms after the 2016 election: “Journalist Bill Moyers’ comment on the article:
Much that we hold dear appears under threat. We will be asked in new and sometimes frightening ways, “What do we stand for?” “What do we care about enough to risk in ridicule, funding, a job, our lives?”
Many of us have not had to face such choices before. Sure, we act for what we believe in. We march. We write letters to the editor. We call our elected officials. We speak up at council meetings. We join committees. We donate. But at what risk? Often very little. That may change
The question isn’t what we’re willing to risk. The question is what we’re willing to lose—because some losses are irreversible. And history does not wait for the comfortable to grow courageous.
So what do we stand for? Not in theory. In practice. When it costs. When it cuts. When it wounds. When they come not just for your name, but your name’s meaning.
Because make no mistake: they already have.
We need a lot less commentary (present company excepted) and a lot more action, i.e., Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty.
100% agree