Violent Overthrow
The unrest in Egypt has been tough to watch, hasn't it? As an American whenever I hear about such chaos, I wonder why things can't be somehow worked out before an entire nation of people rises up.
The system that we are governed under doesn't lend itself to such unrest, or does it? I think it was Jefferson who said, during the time of writing the constitution, that a revolution should take place every twenty years or so in order to keep a balance.
Wouldn't that be fun? We can bet on it like the Super Bowl.
Yet we are still working off that document, and while there certainly are problems, there doesn't seem to be the type of violence from within...even though we shoot each other for sport here...then there is in other countries.
Yet it is strange how we think of those in other parts of the world. As if none of it really matters, you know?
The nightly news shows you tape of mad, screaming people hurling rocks at the capitol building in a country such as Egypt and we sort of chuckle at the television, don't we?
Barbarics!
Yet last night I was sort of looking beyond the footage into the faces of some of those gathered to try and rise up against their government. These people weren't dressed in loin cloths running around like chickens without a head. They were sort of assembling with an eye on having their voices heard by a government that lost touch with what their country was about.
In America we turn the crooks out at every election. We keep trying to turn it until we get someone we feel we can believe in. We battle back and forth, left and right, gays or no gays, guns or less guns, but when it is all said and done there is a bit of discourse that keeps us from that revolution every twenty years.
I try and leave such heady matters to people who have a clue, but there is no escaping the news of the Egypt turmoil.
"They should just blow all them bastards off the face of the map," one guy said on one of the job sites yesterday.
I may not be heady, but that one doesn't seem right to me.
Hopefully, it calms down soon and they can get a whole new regime in there that slowly steals their money.
The system that we are governed under doesn't lend itself to such unrest, or does it? I think it was Jefferson who said, during the time of writing the constitution, that a revolution should take place every twenty years or so in order to keep a balance.
Wouldn't that be fun? We can bet on it like the Super Bowl.
Yet we are still working off that document, and while there certainly are problems, there doesn't seem to be the type of violence from within...even though we shoot each other for sport here...then there is in other countries.
Yet it is strange how we think of those in other parts of the world. As if none of it really matters, you know?
The nightly news shows you tape of mad, screaming people hurling rocks at the capitol building in a country such as Egypt and we sort of chuckle at the television, don't we?
Barbarics!
Yet last night I was sort of looking beyond the footage into the faces of some of those gathered to try and rise up against their government. These people weren't dressed in loin cloths running around like chickens without a head. They were sort of assembling with an eye on having their voices heard by a government that lost touch with what their country was about.
In America we turn the crooks out at every election. We keep trying to turn it until we get someone we feel we can believe in. We battle back and forth, left and right, gays or no gays, guns or less guns, but when it is all said and done there is a bit of discourse that keeps us from that revolution every twenty years.
I try and leave such heady matters to people who have a clue, but there is no escaping the news of the Egypt turmoil.
"They should just blow all them bastards off the face of the map," one guy said on one of the job sites yesterday.
I may not be heady, but that one doesn't seem right to me.
Hopefully, it calms down soon and they can get a whole new regime in there that slowly steals their money.
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