Three Millenia ago, the Israelites began creating the metaphors that described the
rise of humanity out of the Stone Age and provided the word tools for our emergent minds. For this sin, taking away the dialogue from oligarchs and giving it to ordinary people they were reviled.
.A decade ago, Sheila and I walked the pastures and through the ancient stone buildings of my mother’s ancestral Irish farm. My Grandfather Moses O’Rourke was born on the farm and in 1900 set sail for America to leave the English Tyranny behind him.
A Local farmer asked me, “So, what is your job?” I replied, “medical doctor”, to which he said, “Ah, for your sins“. We giggled about that for years and finally Sheila figured it out. “You have to tell people things they don’t want tohear.”
Humans have been enslaved by their own kind since before the Israelites told the story of it. And now, Israel is under attack again or has it just never ended? The Wars continue like some recurring madness. Name the years, 1914, 1939, 1948, 1967 and the list continues along with the USA invasions in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Who can keep count? Perhaps, we are not that interested. We study the Crusades, Mongols, and Ottomans only in arcane books and classrooms inside old schools. Have you read the Art of War by Sun Tzu? Please do.
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