Wars of Societal Attrition

In Antebellum America, our citizens fought against each over slavery, tariffs, states rights and emergent sectionalism. They did so whilst still warmed in the sun of the dawn's early light.

Hand in hand.
Love in one hand.
Their Pulse felt through the fingers of the other hand holding the musket.

Split by forces above them.
Forces that did not stand with their ideals.
Forces both sides chose not to understand.

Cousins, Brothers, Death and Destiny.

Family that had just broken bread months earlier now having to bury the enemy in the family plot.

The generations have yet to adequately heal.
We experience it daily. We are still divided.
We must forge ahead to resolve what the generation could not.

We're about to celebrate our 250th birthday.

Young enough to be precocious.
Old enough to know the wiser of it.

We're pretty precocious, still.
It's gets the better of us occasionally.

But we're still the best demonstration of being human in known history. Until tomorrow.

Tell the neighbor the lawn looks nice.
Pay for the coffee behind you in line.
Look at your family and ask if it really warrants the resolution echoed.

We're a lot better now. It just feels different.
Our beliefs have changed and we struggle to walk with a covenant.

For the society to stand tall, we must stand tall at the NexOS of what comes next.
The choice is ours, as it once was, to determine.

Look around. We're better as one.
We should walk lock step in mutual assurance of societal growth.

That doesn't mean we have to see eye to eye.
It means we agree to disagree and respect our divergent value sets.

The lessons always lie in the past.

Solving tomorrow yesterday.

-tim