Friday, December 18, 2009

No gods or kings.

"Nothing changes you—you change yourself. You are the ever-chugging power plant of life, the lonely light of reason in a howling, barren universe. It begins and ends with you—the outcome, the tally, the score.

You're foremost and final, arbiter and adjudicator, Pygmalion and clay rolled into one.

Your choices shape reality.

Our fathers' fathers learned how to be human through the agony of spear & sword, of steel and lead, of wounds and burns. Our mothers' mothers learned how to be human through the travail or birth and death, of fields and stocks, of steam and grime. The blood of survivors and killers, of explorers and inventors boils inside you.

Question being: now what?"

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