Over a dozen years ago, as I was having a purchase rung up at a hippy-inspired gift store (so I went there for the cotton textiles), a young employee was telling her coworkers that her HS senior class had chosen its motto (I guess that's a thing):
"Those who matter, don't mind, and those who mind, don't matter."
This has always stuck with me because of the saying and the way she said it. I wondered what soulless, dystopian universe I had stepped into. I wondered what these kids were up to, such that it was important for them to make a class motto about dismissing (or worse) those who mind their attitudes and behavior. Must have been class full of real winners. Must have been a school run by real winners.
She was quite proud of her generation of enlightened thinkers. Disagree with us, and you simply don't matter, don't exist. Problem solved.
Don't... a small step from "won't".
Perhaps the real world corrected her course in life, but the real world minds, so it doesn't matter. That's the trouble with reality. Wherever these people go, there it is anyway. It then becomes the "higher law" to station wind turbine sentries along the hilltops to destroy the view and keep the unenlightened in check. Shredded bird carcasses, to send a message.
Well the good news is that evil overplays its hand and Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had constructed for Mordecai (today in history, Nisan 17). Gallows, tree... same word.
"Tree huggers", they chose poorly. Then they named their high holy day "Earth" Day, the first place in the Bible that became a waste and a desolation, immediately. No sooner do you go from verse 1 to verse 2, and there's the first "Earth Day", to send a message.
moovova said,
All that Earthday huff & puff...and they never mentioned the actual date.
Heh, it's like those people on death row who never know what day will be "the day", but they know it's coming one day.
Just like the Good Book says, And there was evening, and there was morning, "one day". Day one...