The Left Column
everyboy's hollar talkin'
can't understand a thing thar sayin'
Most Things in the 
Public Sphere are not
broken and do not need
fixing.
  A Message for France

  Burning it all down
   doesn't fix it.
 So stop,
   stop all the riots
    and go back to your homes.


Cliffs at Yosemite
El Capitan is not broken and does
not need to be fixed.
Fortunatly they can not
be burned down.  The trees,
however, could be.
Burned Trees at Yosemite
Maintaining Political
Decorum is as important
as maintaining
National Monuments.
Ordered and non-violent 
politics is, in fact, our greatest
National Monument.

Political Politeness
Is our Greatest National
Monument
  OK, this is
jingoisitic and maybe just
a little bit trite.  Also
many could argue that when
being oppressed politeness
is for fools.  People who
might make such an argument
would, perhaps, already be
angry and feel 'disenfranchised',
so a polite discussion might
be better held till after they
are fed and let to rest and
given proper concern in
a non-condescending way.

disen-France-chised

People give you, sometimes,
what they think you expect
from them. If you expect a
worse case from them they
may present an additude as 
follows:  
  'I see how you think I am
  horrible.  How could you
    think such hard thoughts
      about me? 
   So I will give you 
    what you expect and
    be even worse 
   than you imagine just 
     to spite you.'
When people become truclent and
impolite in politics
ugly things can happen.  

But this rule also works
in the other direction.  If
you see how folks can be
pleasant, happy, forward
thinking, forgiving, virtuous,
then they will surprise you and
be even more so.
They will want to be this way
becuase that is the way that
Natural Law directs us to be:
our inner consciousness will
guide us to behavior that
augments and builds-up
the people around us, gives
them the respect that they 
deserve and let's them
reflect it back at us.

We make a better world
by not expecting worst
case behaviors.  Expect
people to be stand-up and
philanthropic.  Expect
them to be a posative force
for the good things that
are status quo.
 And those things that need
to be improved, let the people
do the work joyfully!
There are no real Ghouls
And this is true even in
politics
We allow halloween displays
as a public display of
seasonal concerns converted
into non-threatening presentations
of common fears from popular 
culture.  The thing that one
is afraid of but does not,
in fact, exist is called a
'boogie'.  Boogieman:  a ghoul
or otherwise scarey creature
who haunts and hunts his prey.
Boogiemen do not, in fact, exist.