Greatness and Integrity. Modernity: "Here there be lions!"

Greatness comes not by having a mossy path made for you through the meadow, but by being sent to hew out a roadway by your own hands.

-unattributed.

 

In all things, meekness is a kind of majesty is it not?  It's a kind of dare to the eternal to practice anything, and everything this day and age is usually done with such an attitude and lack of concern.

What would have been a greater generation, found themselves, not on the shores of Normandy in uniforms, but marching at a yet younger age through hallways of glass and steel, indoctrinated, institutionalized, such that they vow, "never again", to themselves, and at once, the finishing was a mark of prestige.  Now, not so much, we survive and escape into the wild as we might, to emerge into the urban jungle as bestial as ever, with our low-sloping brows groomed so prettily, and we dance on videos.

The man out of the jungle, and the jungle out of the man: an existential promise made to one another, to be true and without precept, this modern man and his hunting ground, for the rape and pillage, to discard a woman's legs here and her skull there, promises and vows made to some jungle animal spirit, something that speaks through our appetites, moans and groans through the tones of blood pumping in the ear drums.

What was beloved in Coca-Cola became Tyson Foods, and Tyson Foods became Walmart, and Walmart became such and other: these are lions, there they be, among the many aisles of what passes for civilization.  It is civilization not that it has been tried and proven by us, but because they taught this in school.  Guard your heart, hold loved ones dear, for as the Apostle said, "the days are evil."  

The family establishment became the franchise, the franchise then became the chain, the chain became the corporation, and then the corporation went multinational, such that even a staid moment between two enterprising brothers became a global phenomenon.

"Do not those who plot evil go astray?"

-King Solomon, Proverbs chapter 14. 

"ye are a city shining on a hill.... do not hide your light under a bushel."

-Apostle Paul