Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Finding a Way

Frankly I find it tiring. Why can't our elected officials compromise? Why all this drama, this walking to the edge of an abyss, and following a script penned by the screenwriters of the Perils of Pauline?

But at least we air our differences with rhetoric instead of with uprisings. That's a positive. We now refer to these uprisings and ensuing violence as conflicts. Our world is filled with conflicts and every day more pop up.

And compromises mean everyone gives up something or moves a bit to the middle. I know someone will say that even the middle is something to disagree about. Tiring.

The original Perils of Pauline did not contain a railway scene with the damsel tied to the tracks while a train approached. However, the 1947 serial did have such a scene. As the train approached and the sound grew louder the audience gasped-- according to what I've read-- and hoped for a hero, a gallant and brave knight.

That's what we need, but gender doesn't matter. We need Don Quixote.


“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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