Past Ideals Now Present

Throw it all away; that thing you thought you knew - to know that the more you know the less you know. return to basics, base concepts elevated beyond our own. Listen. Who will you hear? George .... Washington; "I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discrimination." Foresaw the foresworn. Civil War carried through today - the day of embedded parties, partly due to inaction. Abdication of that thrown upon which each of us sits - of the people dies as the people retreat, defeat branded as a bar code. Freedom of consumerism - the new ism of identity - marcher to stores, boars to the trough. "But these are unprecedented and unusual times" - so may they always be. The pendulum swing shoots us forward failing to see the new day dawn. Let us raise a wail for "real progress ... real justice ... real equality" - of equanimity, Buddhist style. Revile revisited, then gone, released while reason remains. Look to the past to become the future.