“I can’t convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.”
- Kenneth Smith
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Why bother? For some of us, if you CAN you MUST...
"A calling, not a duty" is a perspective that distinguishes work driven by passion and purpose from work done out of obligation. A calling is seen as a deep sense of purpose that energizes and fulfills a person, often involving a sense of mission and a dedication to a cause or a greater good, while duty is a more transactional concept, performed because it is required. This can be understood in a religious context where a calling is a purpose from God, or a secular one where it is a deeply personal and passionate pursuit."
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