From Pine View Farm

The Eye of the Beholder 0

English general in the 1760s reading a dispatch:  Egad!  The colonials have destroyed a shipment of the King's tea in Boston harbor.  Haven't these colonials heard of peaceful protest?

One of the lessons of history is that a simmering pot eventually boils over. Too often, it boils over to no effect other than a messy stove top. We are at one of those boiling over points now.

It’s up to the polity–what’s left of it–to determine whether we will turn off the burner or simply clean up the stove top while leaving the pot to simmer until the next boiling over point.

Image via Job’s Anger.

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