I read this post hoping I'd get to understand what idea was being portrayed here but I'm sort of at a loss now that I'm through with it.
I sort of grabbed the pathos which rang in the final part of this post, how hopeless things are if even when the country was being laid, people had views so divergent it threatened to bring down the nation.
So I'd like to ask @quillfire to please make his post more concise.
And I sort of know that sort of feeling could be running unchecked in our society today, but I'd have loved to have seen @quillfire expand on this.
He brings a good post to the table. I'm just not so sure he has finished it yet.
@paragon99,
Thanks for the comment. The poem, and accompanying article, is not meant to convey "hopelessness." I certainly don't feel the situation is hopeless. But, I am concerned. The level of vitriol has become pathological. Democracies require free and open debate of ideas and maintaining a spirit of compromise is an imperative.
Ironically, the comments section of this post is exactly what I hoped the poem/article might inspire. Many people expressing intelligent and thoughtful opinions, sometimes conflicting, and yet remaining civil and level-headed. Each arguing their perspective, while being respectful to the perspectives of others.