Killing Off Our Symbols

Posted on July 6, 2003 in Book of Days Citizenship Thinking

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: So it has come to this.

The Coulter thesis holds that those who oppose current Government actions have always opposed our Government. Any rebuttal to the contrary is dismissed or labeled “hateful”. Evil is projected on the critic.

Conversations involving different “sides” of an issue do not result in mutual labors to discover Truth but in battles of definitions.

So it has come to this: The country is in ruins and as some of us strive to reconstruct the beauty and the good of what was, others pull down bricks from the walls of civil gold and smash at our heads.

When a people start killing off their own symbols, they are in a very bad way. — Lame Deer

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Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: It was his idea of a good time.