Archive Home Page >>You just received a degree? Please go back and re-read your post. If anyone needs convincing that America's educational system is in trouble, this should do it for them. You cannnot even spell, punctuate, write in the proper tense, avoid run-on sentences or dangling participles! We ARE IN BIG TROUBLE with the age of global competition upon us!<<
What does this kind of invective in response to someone else's opinion say about your own sense of "empowerment" and self confidence? Arrogance, dominance, and running roughshod over other people is a charicture of empowerment. Don't you think it's time to tone down the condensation? Didn't you hear? The Emperor has no clothes on.
>>TRUE, UNMMITIGATED POWER<<
"And all the King's horses, and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty back together again..."
The things we usually consider power, the ability to control property, and people as property, are really pretty transitory.
As to the "tyrant Holdfast"... one good earth tremor is usually sufficient to send the King, Queen, and other self important couritsans, power brokers, business tycoons, and the like, scurrying for cover. Delusions of grandeur and alienated self importance are not just the province of schizophrenics like myself. They are built right into our social roles.
In the final analysis there may be more true power in simple acts of courage and perseverance, and simple acts of giving, than in all the legions of doom to ever eminate from the mind of man. The only way to even begin to understand that kind of power is to step out into a field some clear crisp night and look upwards. Or as Whitman said "I believe that a leaf of grass is nothing less than the journeywork of the stars".