The word obscene in Greek Tragedies meant that the action took place off scene,
behind the curtain, because it was too terrible to actually depict on stage.
I've gone back 100 years to shake up the past and improve our lives.
Going back farther one is confronted with obscene brutality.
Imperialism - the way of the world -
an arrogance and entitlement that justified horrible acts of murder,
slavery and abuse on all levels.
Anyone perceived as different, inferior, or threatening,
and women and children of all stripes were dispatched or used with impunity.
Four thousand years of that arrogance landed in the Americas.
Spanish, French and English fought fiercely for the rights of a land already occupied.
And finally, the newly minted Americans were the victors,
and ran over the continent and her people without conscience.
King of the Hill...
whoever gets to the top makes the rules and breaks the rules and changes the rules.
They tell the story, HISstory,
not OURstory.
We still live under this archaic model
of might makes right
and the person with the most gold is King.
But, it was not always this way.
There is an older way.
A Peaceful way.
Long, long ago...
More tomorrow...
Re-enactor, St. Augustine.
