Revisiting the Romans

As I re-read last nights posts this morning I feel the need to clarify one of them a bit. The Holy Roman Empire one.

I have not made a 180. I still think we’re fucked up in the New World and there are still lessons we need to learn from the Old World.

Jesus, it’s analogous to the whole thing with me and my dad with the united states being the obnoxious teenager all full of testosterone.

But through conflict comes change.
It is not man’s destiny to remain in the darkened cave staring at strange images on the wall mistaking them for reality. Nay, man has always believed his destiny is to be an explorer. To walk out of the cave and bathe in the light. And yeah some may go blind and some may get sunburned but mans destiny is to keep walking out into the light.

300 years ago the New world was the light and man flocked to it. To Philadelphia and the rest of Pennsylvania for religious freedom, to New York for who knows why people ever went there and the rest of the people who came here all over the place…
(history class …philosophy class…hell, it’s been a long time since I’ve had any class…)

So I’m not saying we are right or we know best and the rest of the world needs to follow along behind us. And I’m not saying we’re gonna burn like Rome or whatever really happened there and there will be some great end to America.
Maybe it’s not even up to us to figure out what the world needs to be moving towards.
But it is our job at this point in history to poke. To push the edge of the envelope. To bring the worlds needs and issues front and center. Even if the issue is needing to move the world beyond the era of the neighborhood bully.
“Well that’s stupid.” I say to myself. We are playing the bully and we got punched in the nose. So we became a bigger bully.

Hey, I’m not saying I know what I’m talking about. I’m just looking for the world to be a better place than it is.