If I could get you to care enough
About these matters
Of world-class importance—
If I could get you to
Dream your own dreams about them,
Rather than merely to lean on mine—
If I could get you to care enough
About these matters
Of world-class importance—
If I could get you to
Dream your own dreams about them,
Rather than merely to lean on mine—
You can talk about the deep things
With your friends,
But most aren’t very good at it.
If you really want to know the man,
Look at what he will tolerate
And what he won’t.
It seems there’s generally always
Somebody trying to take a new stab
At bolstering the notion that
People who don’t do anything substantial
To stop evil can themselves be good.
On this Earth,
Your kids will make their choices—
Which is exactly what
God has put them here to do.
It is perhaps the stupidest ploy
Of unruly humans
To pretend that the character of God
Was transformed from
The Old Covenant to the New,
Such that afterward,
He was no longer adamant
About judging man according to
What man does.
I’m listening to a podcast discussion in which both sides are pretty clearly sympathetic to a certain mega social media platform and its attempts to regulate free speech in the name of keeping the members from “getting into silos”. The idea of the discussion is that you have to step in and regulate things, or else, the participants in the community will be drawn only to the camps that gather around their own favorite points of view. And so the hunt is on, it seems, for the most effective and efficient ways to do this—apparently, to inject an alternate point of view into discussions on the platform.
And is anything wrong with this?
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