Author: ed (---.ecc.bvsd.k12.co.us)
Date: 04-26-05 12:45
I've come late to your question and am no scholar but find it a compelling requirement of your instructor to you.
In the general sense it is through the lose of innocence that all true human maturation happens. To remain as a child damns the adult to a servile posture in the face of power. This evolving to become awake opens the individual to choices of conscience; the falconer, we can substitute here parent or state, wills its charge to remain under its,his,her influence.This is to be determined by courage,curiosity or foolishness all of which challenge authority.
"The best" who lack conviction are those that try only to please authority,"the worst" exude intensity to break the will that binds them; there is no value judgement intended,I don't think, but an observation leading in the case of "The Second Coming" to the rebirth of another horror in the guise of religion.
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