Thursday, February 11, 2016
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Selective outrage is the rule of the day
Bear traps for mice laid by the crowd
Intent on keeping certain wolves at bay
Power to the people yelled out loud
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7/29/2025 8:01:19 AM # 1.0.0
Wow, this is packed with subliminal references! Don't know if I got them all. Very cleverly written, full of irony. Certainly, one wonders what MLK would have thought of the current USA... Not his dream place, I think. Selective outrage is one of the most succinct descriptions I ever heard of government and public behaviour, makes me think of a poem I studied in school - Dropping a bomb is good, throwing a bomb is bad....Social morality has a duality, one for each side of the tracks. It was called ETHICS FOR EVERYMAN. Hence the conclusion of the matter: I well know, O Jehovah, that man’s way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step. Correct me, O Jehovah... (Jeremiah 10: 23) Authority and rulership belong to the author of life and the sovereign of the universe.