the courage to hold our ground, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 223

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What we need is adequate lighting — courage, that close relative to dull-wittedness.  Cowardice illuminates, without fail, but to the point that we are blinded with this all too brilliant thought ... like the rabbit which stops before oncoming headlights.  Even if we somehow manage to move, we still recoil from an all too lucid conscience afterward, as if it had been a duty to be run over by an oncoming cultural presumption, calling it the “courage to hold our ground.”  To fear is to create an absurd double-bind.  To fear is to victimize oneself with one’s own intelligence, and all the while, appearing as the supreme example of “moral courage.”  A deeper courage would have made its stand against the word, “Duty.”



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