Unlike Charlie who welcomed debate, the left hates it. If you don’t agree with them, you are loathed ......................................................
Think how the people are abused by the Left today. It is constant and unrelenting.
It is why failed bike paths, narrowed streets, and "we need just a little bit more" to make the unworkable work, is the chant of failure.
There is no debate, only dogma. Mr. Kirk welcomed debate because it opened the door to the truth. His unfortunate demise has allowed the word "God" and compassion to be openly spoken for the first time in decades.
Thank you. And yes, we can only hope. Like I said I don’t consider myself a religious man, but if that’s what it takes, then as they say, so be it. Things are going to well the other way. Nothing wrong in being kind and forgiving.
Your essay is bursting with love, compassion, and empathy. I don't live in the U.S. and have not done so for over a half century, so I'm not up to date on news events there. I don't know who the public figure Charlie Kirk is, but it appears that his death has deeply moved the American public. Your proposition that martyrdom enables enduring recognition is spot on.
Where I think all good-willed, empathic, altruistic people go wrong is in the belief that after a million years we humans can somehow transcend the very fiber of our being: unpredictability, instability, and our predilection for conflict and violence, Can we really become something that we're not?
I've reluctantly accepted that we are the way we are and it's okay. No blame. We take the good with the bad, because, during our million year stint, what we call the “bad” is still going strong. The only thing that's kept me going is my deep sense of the absurd and my embrace of gallows humor as an operating system. After all, if we can't heartily laugh at ourselves, warts and all, we're really and truly doomed.
Who knows, if humans survive a while longer, maybe we will become something we patently aren't today: a species fit to inhabit the Earth. Thank you for your most appreciated essay.
Unlike Charlie who welcomed debate, the left hates it. If you don’t agree with them, you are loathed ......................................................
Think how the people are abused by the Left today. It is constant and unrelenting.
It is why failed bike paths, narrowed streets, and "we need just a little bit more" to make the unworkable work, is the chant of failure.
There is no debate, only dogma. Mr. Kirk welcomed debate because it opened the door to the truth. His unfortunate demise has allowed the word "God" and compassion to be openly spoken for the first time in decades.
Let us hope it continues.
Thank you. And yes, we can only hope. Like I said I don’t consider myself a religious man, but if that’s what it takes, then as they say, so be it. Things are going to well the other way. Nothing wrong in being kind and forgiving.
Henry,
Your essay is bursting with love, compassion, and empathy. I don't live in the U.S. and have not done so for over a half century, so I'm not up to date on news events there. I don't know who the public figure Charlie Kirk is, but it appears that his death has deeply moved the American public. Your proposition that martyrdom enables enduring recognition is spot on.
Where I think all good-willed, empathic, altruistic people go wrong is in the belief that after a million years we humans can somehow transcend the very fiber of our being: unpredictability, instability, and our predilection for conflict and violence, Can we really become something that we're not?
I've reluctantly accepted that we are the way we are and it's okay. No blame. We take the good with the bad, because, during our million year stint, what we call the “bad” is still going strong. The only thing that's kept me going is my deep sense of the absurd and my embrace of gallows humor as an operating system. After all, if we can't heartily laugh at ourselves, warts and all, we're really and truly doomed.
Who knows, if humans survive a while longer, maybe we will become something we patently aren't today: a species fit to inhabit the Earth. Thank you for your most appreciated essay.
I can’t thank you enough for the kind words and thoughtful reply. I guess in simple terms, we just “keep on truckin’” Thank you