You Should
5/5/14

 

People want a value menu of information handed to them; but I won't oblige.  Begging, asking, or demanding while scapegoating something for the reason why the creator of content must accommodate them is not an action befitting a mind truly ready to embrace liberty.

 

Certainly there are many things that we must do in the present, without sacrificing the future for.  There is always a choice, though we may not always see it because our minds are preoccupied with the hear-and-now.  However…

 

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
-Arthur O’Shaughnessy

 

Ask not but for a chance to show appreciation and a glimmer of hope to understand; yet still all by the might of your own mind to devote for your profit.  To demand anything of one who gives so freely, your lack of forethought in the seemingly innocent question can burn the music maker in ways you may never understand.  Just as it is with those proponents of government, the thirsty liberty seekers are guilty of much the same caliber.

 

“I want what I want now and it must be delivered!  While I have forsaken the government of unjust coercion for the blanket of misguided collective deception to bash you and your business, I boldly stand tall because you won’t freely give me what I want of you as I proclaim it is for the greater good; despite my failure to lend a dime or muscle to your endeavors.”

 

And that is what so many of us who think and create perceive by the good intentions of those demanding while hiding behind the scapegoats of their past choices.

 

So no matter where you go, what you view, the experiences of your ears, and the pleasure of your mind, remember to show appreciation for those creators.  At the very least, remember without failure to give credit where credit is due, if donations cannot be mustered.

 

-JLD

 

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