DOCUMENTATION OF EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WITHOUT ELIMINATION OF EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BECOMES . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— EXPOSITION OF EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— PUBLICATION OF EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— PROMULGATION OF EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— FAMILIARIZATION WITH EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— IMMUNIZATION TO EVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— GETTING USED TO EVIL
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“Familiarity Breeds Contempt”
Daddy often said that, particularly about being careful to watch for rattlesnakes.
If you get used to the continual danger of rattlesnakes, you tend to become less careful and less conscious of the risk of getting bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is an analogy between rattlesnakes and terrorists, between physical danger and ideological threats, between benumbed to warnings of impending disaster and unprepared for inevitable, unavoidable tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Documenting the increasing number of rattlesnakes under the house, talking and warning about the danger every day, without eliminating the rattlesnakes, has predictable effects :
— The people in the house may go crazy.
— The people in the house may get drunk and laugh.
— The people in the house may live for going to work to get out of the house.
— The people in the house may attack the rattlesnakes, with or without the proper tools, with uncertain and ugly outcomes.
— The people in the house may turn against those who told them (truthfully) about the rattlesnakes but didn’t help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the meantime, the growing angst in many Americans is approaching ‘critical mass’ conditions for—‘perfect storm’—‘the balloon goes up’—‘there she blows’—this can’t continue—somebody say something—what shall we do now, before . . .—before somebody dictates conditions of our slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Familiarity (with what could happen, but hasn’t happened yet) breeds contempt (weary of warnings and disregard for the danger).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A small percentage of Americans get complete and accurate reports of the threats to our freedom and our very existence.
We recognize the dire warnings are legitimate—we are unprepared for what’s coming any day now—individually and in national defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the point of realization—
Documentation of the evil without telling what we can do about it, leads to despair or disregard or denial—just to cope and live another day if we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t think that’s the way we’re supposed to live this day in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I am addressing this to conservatives, reporters, documentors, Christian leaders, preachers, my friends, and American Family Radio. DOCUMENTATION OF EVIL WITHOUT ELIMINATION OF EVIL BECOMES . . . — EXPOSITION OF EVIL — PUBLICATION OF EVIL — PROMULGATION OF EVIL — FAMILIARIZATION WITH EVIL — IMMUNIZATION TO EVIL — GETTING USED TO EVIL– – –“Familiarity Breeds Contempt”Daddy often said that, particularly about being careful to watch for rattlesnakes.If you get used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Something is missing—so very much repeating<\/span>, repeating<\/span>, repeating<\/span>—no telling us what to do, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"