Culture Clash

I guess it was inevitable, but I have to admit that I am surprised by the swiftness of the attack. The truth truly is a beacon, and the bright light it emits has the unfortunate habit of attracting bugs.

My last post was commented on by "Anonymous," and if you have the stomach for it, you may wish to go back and check it out.

I wouldn't classify "Anonymous" as a hater...yet. Right now I would say that he (or she) is a critic. We'll see if that continues or if it is merely a chrysalis stage.

Haters want to destroy and consume. They are a darkness that sucks in and doesn't emit. Their existence is emptiness, and they seek to ruin insight and knowledge.

Critics are almost as bad as haters. Critics are small people with small ideas that they try to hide behind inquisitiveness and so-called questioning. Critics obfuscate the big picture, and their presence, if tolerated, leads to distraction and ignorance.

OK, "Anonymous," let me give you a little history lesson to satisfy your thinly veiled criticism:

Sokrates was a great thinker who lived in ancient Greece or Rome. He wrote his ideas down in books of papyrus in order to inspire untold future generations. He thought about and shared his views on the great ideas and concepts that have application to every time period. We don't know exactly how he died, but we know how he lived.

And we know that if he lived now, Sokrates wouldn't be writing books.

He would be blogging.