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extraarcha“we won” is nearly always not
A lesson people and I think “liberal minded” people in particular have not learned or have forgotten is that “we won” is nearly always not. We are about to see that with a number of diseases. Measles, even polio and perhaps somewhere lurks smallpox outside those special labs.
We won the Civil War! Nope, a rebellion was put down and then allowed to simmer generations.
We won against Fascist and Nazi ideology! Nope. We crushed a couple of nations fully infected, hanged or purged some of the worst, but paid little attention to the festering infection in our own nation. They laid very low here after 7 December 1941 and into the 1950s when all eyes turned to another infection, Communism al la Soviets and Chinese. But you know, that freedom of expression even as it was pure poison breaking out as bombs in churches and lynchings.
Anyone knowing even a bit about antibiotics as revealed by penicillin use long ago knows winning against an infection by incomplete application of the cure leads to worse in the instance and emergence of new strains of the agent resistant to the cure. Even people knowing that fail to apply that knowing to infections of the body politic. Get weak knees at the very thought of carrying on the cure until the agent is indeed no longer a threat.
Odd isn’t it? Some sincere believers of religion likely still think human or child sacrifice is holy. We do not tolerate that. But in other “beliefs” that actually cause more human and child death and misery we split hairs, make intricate excuses. Yes, any suppression can be turned on the good as well at the evil. Not doing what is necessary to prevent evil triumphing? That is not “good” as we are experiencing.
Somewhat along those lines is my sleeping pill last night. I usually don’t need such an aid but now sometimes I do. It is worth a watch as a warning. How a strange transformation can take place in what looks like “political” things. How staunch Imperialist can morph into SS Nazis with weird ideology even for Nazis.
~ pelagicray @ Daily KOS — Abbreviated Pundit Roundup - What is this thing that people call the First Amendment
We won the Civil War! Nope, a rebellion was put down and then allowed to simmer generations.
We won against Fascist and Nazi ideology! Nope. We crushed a couple of nations fully infected, hanged or purged some of the worst, but paid little attention to the festering infection in our own nation. They laid very low here after 7 December 1941 and into the 1950s when all eyes turned to another infection, Communism al la Soviets and Chinese. But you know, that freedom of expression even as it was pure poison breaking out as bombs in churches and lynchings.
Anyone knowing even a bit about antibiotics as revealed by penicillin use long ago knows winning against an infection by incomplete application of the cure leads to worse in the instance and emergence of new strains of the agent resistant to the cure. Even people knowing that fail to apply that knowing to infections of the body politic. Get weak knees at the very thought of carrying on the cure until the agent is indeed no longer a threat.
Odd isn’t it? Some sincere believers of religion likely still think human or child sacrifice is holy. We do not tolerate that. But in other “beliefs” that actually cause more human and child death and misery we split hairs, make intricate excuses. Yes, any suppression can be turned on the good as well at the evil. Not doing what is necessary to prevent evil triumphing? That is not “good” as we are experiencing.
Somewhat along those lines is my sleeping pill last night. I usually don’t need such an aid but now sometimes I do. It is worth a watch as a warning. How a strange transformation can take place in what looks like “political” things. How staunch Imperialist can morph into SS Nazis with weird ideology even for Nazis.
~ pelagicray @ Daily KOS — Abbreviated Pundit Roundup - What is this thing that people call the First Amendment
