apaleader
Jun 19 2008, 05:02 AM
Stray kites are the most tyrannical as they are ballooned with the ideas of freedom, individuality and equality. They furiously roam the sky reaching for more and more height, for a fleeting image of Heaven to end up caught in the branches of an earthly tree. Why, in the long road of humanity, who are those who aspire to the great heights above the earthly existence as of now—the commoners? If so, then the Law must be enforced, which judgments are that of the mind and will of the society as a whole, in which it rules supreme. Those who don't understand should submit to it—one must know that organization supersedes the contrary thereof in society, and those who do, enforce it as it is the trunk of the tree that harbors the nest of the civil society—the Law is essential as it leads to Justice and the path thereto is paved and made convenient to the whole rather than to the few. The tree may impede its course; however, the stray kite has no mind of its own: it is the mere ignorance of the commoner, led astray into an ocean of incertitude. They are the immoderate desire of the primitive self, unable to perceive that the world is more than mirrors of their own reflections. We must break their mirrors, and may they finally see that the world doesn't revolve around one, but many. Some may be salvaged, but often they become stray dogs. There exist a divergence in the treatment of the latter, that reveals sizeable differences in rooted mentality: in the west, they are catered and even admired; in the east, they are eaten!