People have long memories
I presently live on the Cumberland Plateau in east Tennessee.
Precious
little of the actual Civil War fighting happened around here. What did happen
everywhere was the large amount of discussion and debate; and Families on up to
higher levels fractured into their causes as they walked and rode off to fight
elsewhere.
Yet you would think the Civil War
was just yesterday by all the usual collection means one has around this county. Even someone put up a large flag pole ages ago by nearby Interstate
40, and flies a Confederate Flag from it 24/7/365 up to today. I can't say what
will happen in the future.
So I believe people can have long
memories, and offer this Flag story as an example of what I mean
Leaders lead for their own reasons. Followers, which are most of us, often engage
in a tit for tat method to exact revenge or retribution to the point where
sometimes the original cause is lost along the way. It happens. Movies are even
still being made that often glorify some cause as part of providing a movie
entertainment experience.
With so much of the existing world
closely divided, once again we are ripe for introducing new situations that may
begin their own "long memory" tradition.
So now is a good time remind all leaders
to act, vice react.
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