Hopefully I don’t get canceled for saying India has a caste system. I’m not hating on that except to the extent I’m granted by America’s founding fathers to say no one is born above another. There is a necessity for boundaries and those divided must agree with their opposite where the lines are drawn. Recently I was advertised the book Flatland, it’s a medieval book depicting a hierarchy with shapes that the more sides a shape had the higher it is in society. A new side is added for each successful generation and circles were royalty. The book gained significants not because of social commentary, but because the story took place on a 2 dimension plane. The social commentary is also valid as squares don’t mix with triangles and lines need to be screeching for safety. When the lesser shapes start getting big ideas they can stumble into a world not possible for them to understand, the third dimension. Then again the sphere did appear to a square. There needs to be a proving ground that keeps wild ideas from taking over, in capitalism we call it the invisible hand of the market. A person can have the greatest idea ever thought up, but the timing or execution could be wrong leading to a flop. An idea that can’t manifest in the real world is fantasy and telling a fantastic story doesn’t indicate someone will be a good leader. The hero within me is always drawn to the trails of Hercules, even the son of Zeus had to prove himself. Yesterday we went to the mall where I bought a playing card of Disney’s Hercules, I already own an ancient coin minted of Alexander the great with the nemean lion on his head in the style of Hercules. Thousands of years apart we are chasing the same ideals.
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