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An deep issue to consider. Violence dominates the short term, long term emergance the long. Normally violent groups are marginalized... 1/
2/ But when the society is unraveling, as ours is, the virus/pathogens have access to the body politic in a way that the "normal" cannot ...
3/ combat. It is a normal ebb & flow of the Tao of things.. and we are not likely to escape this horrible & consequential pendulum swing...
4/ We are in the phase of decline that may be arrested,but not likely. The violent factions likely will not easily be remanded to the fringe
5/ The violent factions, neo-nazi & others have their champion in the center of power nowThey are not likely to give it up easily or quietly
6/ These large civilizations flows have been discussed by some of the great historians famous & lesser.. like this amzn.to/2gHZUf7
7/ Also Toynbee, Durant, and of course Gibbon. We are in the time of the Third Ghost asking the great question. ...
8/ We are in the time of the Third Ghost posing the great question: Are these things/events/outcomes that must be, or only may be....
9/ This question of how the universal value of free speech applies in an era when the body politic is unmoored and to a unsettling degree..
10/ ...is devoted not to questions, knowledge & wisdom -> growth, but the fearful, small, tribal, "safe" place of #InvincibleIgnorance.
11/ It is in the incubator of fear - as is one of our primary conditions in the country now - that these groups gain access for their toxins
12/ So the question posed at the beginning looms large:How does a free society hold to free speech in an era of tribal fears & xenophobia?
