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I have come to a revelation.
Just as the sword once was, now is money. By that I mean, an evil weapon that controls the world, through which a certain amount of exercise is necesary to protect that which you hold dear. Before guns and capitalism and national identity and standing armies and institutionalized law enforcement and a world population bordering on cataclysmic, all a man needed to rpotect those precious to him was a sword and the will to use it. He may need defeat everything that came his way, and accidents still happened, but it was his duty to keep his wife and family and children from the clutches of other evil men.
Now we are in vastly different times. It is money that moves men, not violence. One man's strength and skill at arms is not only inadequate but also completely incompatible. A will and a strong arm are not enough to do anything these days, except be a professional boxer/quarterback.
I have hated money and the system that revolves around it. I have had no interest in succeeding along the guidelines imposed by today's society of greed. And yet, I have failed to realize how important money is when the time comes to protect someone. For example, what if a friend of mine has been abused in their home? Ages past, I would kill the man, or at the very least put the fear of death into him. These days such actions would ruin me. So instead, I'll need the money to put that person in my home and support them for as long as it takes.
I will not love money, not ever. But perhaps now I can learn a little peace in the pursuit of it.
Just as the sword once was, now is money. By that I mean, an evil weapon that controls the world, through which a certain amount of exercise is necesary to protect that which you hold dear. Before guns and capitalism and national identity and standing armies and institutionalized law enforcement and a world population bordering on cataclysmic, all a man needed to rpotect those precious to him was a sword and the will to use it. He may need defeat everything that came his way, and accidents still happened, but it was his duty to keep his wife and family and children from the clutches of other evil men.
Now we are in vastly different times. It is money that moves men, not violence. One man's strength and skill at arms is not only inadequate but also completely incompatible. A will and a strong arm are not enough to do anything these days, except be a professional boxer/quarterback.
I have hated money and the system that revolves around it. I have had no interest in succeeding along the guidelines imposed by today's society of greed. And yet, I have failed to realize how important money is when the time comes to protect someone. For example, what if a friend of mine has been abused in their home? Ages past, I would kill the man, or at the very least put the fear of death into him. These days such actions would ruin me. So instead, I'll need the money to put that person in my home and support them for as long as it takes.
I will not love money, not ever. But perhaps now I can learn a little peace in the pursuit of it.