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Know Your Place
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche We are part of a culture – religious and otherwise – that seeks pleasure and avoids pain, at all costs. Because of this tendency to embrace anything that is pleasant and to reject anything that might be painful, many of us prefer to embrace illusions instead of reality. We choose to live our lives in a lie. As the old saying goes,…
PASSENGERS
“You busted his lip!” “Look at what you did to him!” “Good work guys, good work! Way to go!” “This is horrible.” “Yeah, the police grabbed him. He’s an older doctor. He wouldn’t get off the plane, so they forced him off.” These are direct quotes of some of the things that were said by other passengers as Dr. David Dao was literally dragged from his seat on an overbooked United Airlines flight this past Sunday. According to reports, Dr.…