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#J6PardonOfInnocence Analysis 4

16 January 2023 - The Big Chill

In Which We Discuss Courage, Cowardice, Shame, Pride, Fear, Loathing, Passion, Patriotism

After a story/confession, I'm going to try to take them in that order. We'll see how I do...
2) I was not in DC for the 6 January 2021 Rally. I wanted to go. Fiercely. It wounded my ego to NOT go. Allow me a martial arts term: Zanshin. It comes from the Samurai and means your sense of threat or danger. For the Samurai it was almost a mystical concept.
3) In Akira Kurosawa's great film The 7 Samurai (which was the basis of the Magnificent 7), there is a scene in which a Samurai being recruited and tested, refuses to walk past an open door, which was, in fact, hiding an attacker. He was the greatest recruit. That was Zanshin.
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