My Thoughts
These days I am reminded of a phrase now more than four centuries old, first mentioned in the classic tale The Ingenious Knight of La Mancha or more familiarly Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615). The phrase that comes to mind is “tilting at windmills” which surely must be an aphorism inexplicably baffling for minds critically indoctrinated by the modern public school system. Tilting, for students of more than a few decades past, is another word for jousting, which of course, to the fundamentally illiterate mind, is as odd a word as the former, just as chivalry, morality, honor, and fighting for noble causes are no longer sanctioned virtues by the hive mind. After all, though there were weapons mentioned in the tale, no mention was made of AR-15s, high-capacity magazines, or automatic weapons. All that aside, to ‘tilt at windmills’ is to attack imaginary enemies. It is that simple, and yet, too complex a concept for anyone who fathoms 2 + 2 = 4 as racist, phobic (there are too many phobias to list), whatever sinks your canoe, unplugs your peloton, or burns your tommy johns.
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