America: Running to Daylight

Myths, SuperMyths, Sports and Jobs?

Notre Dame, Civilization and Vince Lombardi?

In her book,?Attack from Within,?Attorney Barbara McQuade dates the Big Lie from the time of Hitler's “Mein Kampf.”

Today, as Truth is photobombed and eclipsed by social media and social media influencers, we need to be reminded that the Big Lie started long before Hitler and Voltaire:

Thucydides declared that:?The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

Ours is the nation that sent Ken and Barbie to the G-20:

despite the Navy Seal motto: Never bring a knife to a Gunfight.?

Solutions are precluded by our superficiality of thought and investment:

by our visionless system of banking, two-tier system of justice and accountability:

and lack of inspired discipline:

Update: Notre Dame, Civilization and Leadership

Sir Kenneth Clark famously hosted a TV series entitled Civilisation:

a book I read several times.

Notre Dame is being rebuilt - after the fire. And so is Civilization:

Leadership

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”- Jennifer Lee

Tim Cook at Duke Graduation: Fearlessness is taking the first step, even if you don’t know where it will take you. It means being driven by a higher purpose than by ego and applause.

It means knowing that you reveal your character when you stand apart, more than when you stand with a crowd. If you step up without fear of failure, if you talk and listen to each other without fear of rejection, if you act with decency and kindness, even when no one is looking, even if it seems small or inconsequential, trust me, the rest will fall into place.

More importantly, you’ll be able to tackle the big things when they come your way. It’s in those truly trying moments that the fearless inspire us.

Fearlessness like that of the students of Parkland, who refused to be silent about the epidemic of gun violence, bringing millions to their calls.

Fearless like the women who say “Me Too” and “Time’s Up.” Women who cast light into dark places and move us to a more just and equal future.

Fearless like those who fight for the rights of immigrants who understand that our only hopeful future is one that embraces all who want to contribute.

Duke graduates, be fearless. Be the last people to accept things as they are, and the first people to stand up and change them for the better.

In 1964, Martin Luther King gave a speech at Page Auditorium to an overflow crowd. Students who couldn’t get a seat listened from outside on the lawn. Dr. King warned them that someday, we would all have to atone not only for the words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, “Wait on time.”

Martin Luther King stood right here at Duke and said,?"For you graduates, that time is now. It will always be now. It is time to add your brick to the path of progress. It’s time for all of us to move forward. And it’s time for you to lead the way.”

Sports

ince Lombardi explained the essence of leadership and In New York, Lombardi introduced the strategy of?rule blocking?to the NFL.[68] In rule blocking, the offensive lineman would block an area, and not necessarily a particular defensive player, as was the norm up to that time.[69] The running back then was expected to run toward any hole that was created. Lombardi referred to this as?running to daylight.[70] In soccer, this is known as “running to open space.”

America, like molecules and water - runs to open space - to the vacuums of leadership -in order to implement Democracy:?

Often, it is drive-by Democracy that we pursue.

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