Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears. He is a carrion crow, and though you seen not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
From Politics, Essays, Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid.
In an apparent effort to get the Roe v. Wade case reversed by the Supreme Court, the most recent state, Alabama, passed an almost total ban on abortion. Women are protesting several new state laws dressed in attire inspired by The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood. If you have not read the book or watched the series, both are riveting and the timeliness of the television show couldn't have been better. Women take heed.
Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.
There is deadlock in the legislative branch, the executive branch is unrestrained, the judiciary is holding its breath. This has become a country of old men offering little hope for the future. Fear is taking control.
Is there revolution in the air?
