Nothing in Particular

Rather than too hastily condemning everything in one category, such as booze, perhaps different kinds of alcohol DO exist, producing varying forms of behavior.  For instance:  Why do you only see beer bottles by the side of the road, never empty magnums of champagne?

There was once a respected King who continually did the unexpected, and never even offered any explanations after-the-fact.  A neighboring Prince thought he could surely learn something of value if he could ascertain the King's inner thoughts and motivations.  So he sought out the monarch's most trusted Prime Minister, but when queried he replied, “HAH, he NEVER tells me anything,” and all of the other little inner ministers said, “Same here, us either.”

While everyone else remains engaged in a staged, mock battle, only the Real Revolutionist takes the struggle seriously, and thus treats it as nothing-in-particular.

I once happened to hear a well-reputed mortal philosopher state that Man could “reason his way to peaceful existence inasmuch as aggression is, in the first place, an invention of the human mind.”  I would not like to be locked-up in his head over the weekend.  A further example of how distorted things can become in Man's 3-D-reflective-world.  Here you have one who appears to be the paradigm of civility, but also one in whom the lower, baser forces have apparently escaped and now exert some control over higher circuitry.  Would be frightening indeed, if it were correct…

Truism Update Number Seventeen:
 

Those who do not clean the past are doomed to re-paint it. 
Those who do not un-hem the past are doomed to re-weave it. 
Those who do not un-chart the past are doomed to re-sail it. 

And finally:  Those who do not, are doomed.

J.