"Collage - art made by sticking various different materials on a backing
Montage - the process or technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole. "
Are we at present the one or the other? Or are we a mix? Are we, today, this nation, this world, a work of Art complete? Or are we a montage in the process of selecting and applying? In fact, are we a rather frightening disharmonious synthesis of the two with gaping blank spaces where before were pieces creating a good story, a tale of courage, progress and improvement, and people eager and willing and honest and able to keep an ongoing momentum for all of humanity as we all bask in the gifts of the Earth and guard them well.
Our collages and montages of yesterday were not always positive. However, we recognized that it was upon us to make it better, to reach out and strive for improvement, for betterment for all, with acknowledgement that we all share this small orb in space and must take care of it and its inhabitants. Unfortunately, today, imitating the errors of the past and ignoring the ones we need, we have lost our sense of true beauty, of the glory of cooperation and unity, and turned the collages and montages into ugly art, atonal harsh music, heartbreaking and defeated, bleak. and devoid of hope.
Today our montage process has gone way off the track. We are missing key pieces necessary for a harmonious inspiring collage. We have fallen so far back, so deep into negativity that so many despair of ever reversing direction and finding our way back to where we should be, to step forward with brave steps. What is truly glaringly obvious in its absence is a quality and quantity of leadership, of ones who willingly unselfishly take upon themselves the heavy yoke of respect, ability, and demands never ending, that all and more come with true leadership.
Today, with an exception difficult to find, there is a severe dearth of such. Our leaders are selfish, dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, uncaring, and unable to see what they have created. They have surrounded themselves with an army of fearful cowards out for themselves. Obedient to the autocrat at the head of the nation. They conspire with him, are complicit with him, in the destruction that ensues. With hands always grasping for wealth and power, with the perverted character traits of a bully, this evil crows., grows and has turned this world on its head, substituting a twisted world order which is totally opposed to any positive thoughts, for rights for all, for the betterment of humanity. These malignant malevolent cowards force the rest of the world to walk on rocky and unsteady paths always on the edge, on the brinks of crumbling cliffs.
Our leaders of the past were certainly not perfect for no human is. However, there was within the good ones a quality a character that inspired others. to be better. to be unselfish. to benefit others as well as themselves. They knew instinctively what to say to a nation in either warning or encouragement. For the most part, they did not brush their sins from their shoulders, or step over and on, uncaring, unnoticing, those in need. Their knees stepped high, powerful, eager, encouraging, and the people followed. Encouraged were a sense of morality and purpose, and a responsibility to give back, to share the bounty they received, to pay it forward. They were inspiring to the world especially to the younger generation and revived hopes and dreams in those already disillusioned.
Many of their words remain, still echo in the air of our nation and we must fight hard to recall them clearly, to speak of them with vigor. To enable the return of a better world, a more hopeful, promising world. We must fight hard to rescue our nation from the evil and greed. which are now rampant within our nation and the world at large. We must take back our country, refuse to cede it to the wrong people. We must recognize where we went wrong and reverse it - forcefully, legally, with determination, and a no. we will not quit attitude.
Read the words, the pieces of the collage and montage below, some from the past, some from today, some warnings for the future, or of what should be or might be or will be or must not be. Determine for yourself in which collage do you wish to be included? Which montage is the one to join?
Yesterday: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of Liberty”
" So, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Today's version: "Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill, that today's America will pay no price, bear no burden, incur no hardship, and it will abandon any friends and cuddle up to any foes in order to assure the Trump Administration's political survival, even if it means the abandonment of Liberty wherever that be profitable or convenient for us."
So, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but for what you can do for President Trump. And my fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, ask how much you are ready to pay for America to defend your freedom from Russia or China.”
"A small man in a big time." A succinct definition of Trump,
A few words of meaning and warning from a great man of the past, for the present and for the future. His words and his greatness should always be front and center in front of our eyes, ears and minds. He knew and gave us warning that the only true enemy we have is ourselves. Read his words carefully and understand its portent for us, what it bodes for America, the nation he fought so hard to keep.
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected. I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."
We are the bosses of our fate, of our future, of the future of America. When we lose sight of what America is, its greatness and promise, we are signing off on its death warrant.
We need to stand tall, straight, and proud, determined to save our heritage and improve on it. We need to turn aside from fake leaders possessed of a great hubris so harmful for all.
Time to consign Trump, Musk, all MuskRats, all Congressional cowards and bigots to the trash heap of history. ASAP. STAT. The life of a nation is at stake and that of the world to follow.
Way past time.
Time to decide and act.
Who were we yesterday?
Who are we today?
Who do we wish to be
On the morrow?
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