Only A Knowledgeable, Empowered And Vocal Citizenry

One Of Life's Joys Was To Have Friends Who Gave You Reality Checks...who Would Call You On Your Crap Before It Rose So High You Drowned In It.

...where Were Answers To The Truly Deep Questions? Religion Promised Those, Though Always In Vague Terms, While Retreating From One Line In The Sand To The Next. Don't Look Past This Boundary, They Told Galileo, Then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, And Crick, Always Retreating With Great Dignity Before The Latest Scientific Advance, Then Drawing The Next Holy Perimeter At The Shadowy Rim Of Knowledge.

Petals Floating By, Drift Through My Woman's Hand, As She Remembers Me.

In The End, The Work Of Diplomats Continues Even While Others Fight. So, It's Not Necessarily True That Everyone Needs To March.

Every Marvel Of Our Age Arose Out Of The Critical Give And Take Of An Open Society. No Other Civilization Ever Managed To Incorporate This Crucial Innovation, Weaving It Into Daily Life. And If You Disagree With This... Say So!