Or
Is a dangerous word
Or
Can be this
Or
That
Which loads both words
Like a gun
I
Am
Either
Or
What does that look like?
Healthy
Or unhealthy
Good
Or
Bad
Right
Or wrong
But life’s not like that
Even though our brains
(Which desire clarity and ultimatums and black or white real time tangible answers)
Like it that way
So they constantly try and shove things into a box
Label and ship it to whatever state of consciousness we happen to be in
Feel free not to participate
Because
Or
Leaves no room for negotiation
Take your choice
Now
What do you want?
With a life of extremes
The thing is
When we live in corners
Polar Opposites
When we choose ultimatums
We lose
All the good stuff that is in the middle
“And”
Is a much better word
I like it
It makes sense
Good and bad
A little bit of both
Not too much either way
A little grey
A little mix
It makes it much easier to pick my way
From moment to moment
To spread out
And take it all into consideration
Relaxing
Accepting
Nothing is perfect
I feel often your posts are directed at me. Or I get you thinking about things perhaps. Interestingly, I’ve been thinking a lot about these concepts in the last year. Almost constantly. Can you be tolerant of intolerance? Authoritarianism? How long? Probably too long. Extremists count on moderates to be moderate while they systematically thug their way to power. It’s how we moderates got where we are now in this country. Just kept turning the other cheek and putting up with totalitarian thought in all our universities. You can’t use racism to fight racism, but they are. “All you need for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” Be moderate? Edmunde Burke. Which is just how Hitler took over Germany. Stalin in Russia. They’ve already shut down free speech. That’s the big key right there. Obviously Donald Trump did nothing of the sort. Nobody got worse press than Donald Trump. Ever. they were allowed to accuse him of treason and more without evidence for four years on every news channel, including Fox News. Any dissent from this culture war has been “hate speech” for a while on campuses and elsewhere. And even protested by quite a few prominent liberals. It’s all relative and it depends totally on circumstances how “moderate” one can remain. Freedom is disappearing fast here in this country. Shockinglly fast. When free speech is curtailed, in every country it is, it results in violence. A black police chief in Virginia was jsut fired for prosecuting 14 rioters for destroying her city. But we are not allowed to speak. We did the easier thing all the time, underestimating how dangerous these fanatics are. And to what depths they will sink. And we moderates wish it weren’t so. Joe Biden had to sell his soul to the socialist mob, and we think it won’t be long before, if he refuses to comply, he will suddenly be guilty of corruption in Ukraine and China. We’ll see. They’ve finally awakened a sleeping moderate conservative giant. Who never should have slept that long. Moderation is a virtue sometimes, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes it’s just cowardice. Or an excuse to stand for nothing. Sorry if I’m taking this out on you. I’m just venting and angry at myself for being moderate this long.