Roll Over Jean Paul Sartre

Love survives through all of life’s obstacles. It’s like a weed. It can grow in the midst of the concrete world around it. It’s the proverbial flower, the rose bursting through the lonely heart, and of course it grows better with a little fertilizer and water. Nevertheless, it is a weed. There are some beautiful weeds in this world of ours, e.g., Queen Ann’s Lace, Mustard Weed, Wild Phlox, and Crown Vetch (just to name a few).

Love can grow through war, poverty, pain, death, and subjugation. It can grow without God, Mohammad, Buddha, or Jerry Falwell. It can grow through Republican Presidencies, Democratic Presidencies, and totalitarian governments. Love can grow with or without the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden, or Donald Duck. It can grow without The American Idol, The Discovery Channel, CNN, Fox Network, or the Jeff Foxworthy Show. Love grows with or without the Pope, Oprah Winfry, Dr. Phil, or Ted Nugent.

There’s only one thing that can keep love from growing, the mind. The limits of love can only be created by the mind. Otherwise, it has absolutely no limits. Why all this talk of love? Leaders whose minds are limited by prejudice, radical belief systems, and irrational thinking control our world. They are minds without a universe, minds in a box with no door, no lid. They are superficial and self-serving. As the cliché infers “they wouldn’t know love if it slapped them in the chops.” You see, love is abstract and our world leaders are incapable of abstractness. Jean Paul Sartre would roll over in his grave if he could see or hear the exchange of ignorance being passed around in the Middle East.

Thomas Jefferson’s skeleton would rattle if he could see the current administration’s attempt at ruining our U.S. Constitution. He would shutter at the radicals holding up their signs telling the world our nation was built upon a foundation of Christianity. He would not recognize the Declaration of Independence as it is juxtaposed on a blackboard of our world’s reality. His world is gone. His reality has been consumed by Calvinism and Donald Trump.

In today’s world the famous Patrick Henry of “give me liberty or give me death” fame would take death instead of the limited liberty created by a divided government. Death to some is better than a glass cage. Solution? You decide.