You may have detected some form of incongruity in my recent posts here, and I’m sure there must also be some to be found in past efforts. First I am declaring what the world needs is ‘Love, Sweet Love’, then, in the next breath, advocating nuclear strikes as the sole item on my non-existent ‘Christmas Wishlist’. How incongruous is that?
Well, in fact, it is not so incongruous at all! It is, in fact, the exact way that any important history gets laid down. Nothing of any grave and serious import to human experience gets to occur without first taking place the removal of whatever impediments stand in its way. Without the removal of those impediments everything would remain the same, good or bad. Healthy or unhealthy. Moral or immoral. A regimen of honest dealings or corruption. A system of truth or lies. A reign of peace or war, growth or stagnation. Nothing changes without some form of upheaval. Something has to be removed in order to make room for something better. Do you see where this is going?
And that, I think is at least partly what lies behind the latest writing of Charles Hugh Smith – ‘Grey Swans Are Circling’. A piece I can thoroughly recommend and which you can read here on Titanic Lifeboat Academy or at the original site of the author’s blog – Of Two Minds.
So, yes, if you detected some incongruity in my writings – Well Done. It is a necessary and crucial part of moving things along. Nothing happens without a cost of some sort.
…and, while I don’t see any hard and fast rule applying here, I reckon it’s fair to say that Great Things do not come about without Great Cost. And, more often than not, also without Great Effort and Determination.
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