The Guiding Principle (David Glenn Cox)

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David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust

Jan. 31, 2011 -- It has been about a month since my rescue from the street.

I quickly became sissified, sanctified, civilized and satisfied. I am plagued though, by dreams at night of a past life and I find myself torn between the two worlds.

Strange isn't it? How quickly we can salve over hurt and pave over pain. How a hot meal and a warm bed can make us forget the cold nights with a sandwich and potato chips.

I vowed that I would not forget, that I would never forget. With every shower and with every drop of hot water that runs down to my feet, I remember. It is troubling for me. I am a combat soldier out of the combat zone and so it's hard to make others understand, for I'm not sure that I still understand myself anymore.

I was reading Noam Chomsky the other day: "The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter."

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[WingDinger]

1. Living on the street, does the same as life during wartime.

It makes you hypervigilant. And that fact, is what the rethugs are banking on. Their shock therapy for the american people, so as to make us forget all about uncle same helping americans, that are not corporate persons, will backfire. Just as it did in Katrina. Their lesson was, not our fault, and dont look to us for help.

The street will either make you bitter and resentful, like certain Germans around 1930s. Or compassionate and spiritual. The street changes your soul. Even as your pain passes.