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Bravo on this post - Substack awards need to be a thing.

On the reality we're living in: who could have predicted that violence would proliferate in an environment where every avenue of peaceful recourse has been blockaded, boarded up, booby trapped, buried, bought off, burned, back stabbed, belittled, bulldozed...

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... as through this world I've wandered

I've seen lots of funny men

Some will rob you with a six-gun

And some with a fountain pen.

.......

And as through your life you travel

Yes, as through your life you roam

You won't never see an outlaw

Drive a family from their home.

Woody Guthrie, Pretty Boy Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MwplKjk_O0

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My thoughts exactly!

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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) did in Leviathan.

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