Dear Prof. Bonagura, 10/27/10
The mind is not confined to the faculties of time and space. What if time for all its worth is but a manifestation of mind? Existence is what perpetuates. I have met persons that seem to exist yesterday and others that exist tomorrow, and others even still that seem not to exist at all. We spend our whole lives trying to make more time and in the end we only find a noticeable absence thereof. Time at times seems only to constrict and restrict. Man is the only creature that would take what is infinite and try to divide it into finite segments. Clockwork institutions have a tragic tendency of impeding progress.
Sometimes law makes up- down and inside-outside and even right-wrong and vice versa. Authority it seems is neither concerned so much with wrong or right or up or down, it is merely concerned with the status quo. When convention is more sacred then dissent, a society is poisoned. When security is greater valued than freedom, than freedom is no longer worth preserving. The law was written for a purpose, but for what principle one might assume? Dogma has but only one purpose, to preserve and when preservation impedes growth one must defy authority.
History has a way of euthanizing atrocity, a tendency of glorifying wickedness and of demonizing the oppressed. Imperialism although atrocious and barbarous was recorded in history as heroic. Why then now are immigrants deemed criminals? Do they not labor honestly with the might of their backs to ring from the sweat of their brow the daily bread for their families?
"A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies"- Henry David Thoreau
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