| A hard lesson was learned today - but some good news as well |
 |
It's obvious now - the story was wrong, the sources phony or deliberately misleading, the "updates" nothing but cruel hoaxes.
Many of us knew - many more wanted so badly to believe that they suspended their abilities to think critically and bought into what they wanted to happen rather than what really was. He walked. We kept saying "IF" he gets indicted, but that qualifier somehow got lost in the mail. I thought they would get him, but with each passing day and with each passing sad grasp at the hopelessly tarnished brass ring I thought more and more that it would come to this. From the beginning, it walked like a duck, and it talked like a duck. I and countless others so wanted it to be a swan, but it could never be. We'll find many TruthOut "supporters" gone today, their clandestine work of painting DU as a haven for conspiracy addicts done. But we will also find many heartbroken, for they truly believed, up until today, that somehow somewhere it would turn out to be right, and that the graceful beauty of the swan would win out. How sad, then, that all we hear now is the quacking. The lesson learned was a hard one, but it is this: stop hanging your hats on the moon and looking for gold dust where it doesn't exist. Stop looking at manufactured idols for answers and instead question everything that comes before you, no matter who brings it forth. Quoting Mr. Zimmerman -"don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road." Do not jump without first seeing if you are standing on a cliff, and make sure your leaders can walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Rabble rousing is nice, but it don't feed the bulldog. Most importantly, though, I leave you this. [editorial note: And then the bipolar DUmmie disorder kicks in and we get:] Do. Not. Give. Up. |