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This is another piece that I reworked from an old fragment (only four lines), which dated back to my High School days in the Late Eighties.
The original fragment was about racism, and why I thought it was rather stupid. It also had two musical influences, the first being Neil Young's infamous 1970 song: Southern Man, which, for all the flak he got over it (including Lynyrd Skynyrd's clap-back at him in their own song Sweet Home, Alabama), I thought that, if nothing else, for all his heavy-handedness, and blanket arguments, Neil nevertheless made one good point in the song, with the line: "Don't forget what your Good Book said"
The second was Bruce Hornsby's 1986 song: The Way it Is
My own take was based upon my own Bible Studies as a youth, namely the notions of guilt assigned to a group (and passed on to subsequent generations), was based upon the scripture to be found in Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9 (KJV), which talks about guilt passed on unto the Fourth Generation. Hence, the idea that someone condemning and/or arbitrarily judging an entire group, (if they also proclaim to be a Bible-believer), is, by definition behaving if they think they somehow know more than G-d.
Beyond this, I think most of the other points I am trying to make are made quite succinctly in the piece, itself.
The original fragment was about racism, and why I thought it was rather stupid. It also had two musical influences, the first being Neil Young's infamous 1970 song: Southern Man, which, for all the flak he got over it (including Lynyrd Skynyrd's clap-back at him in their own song Sweet Home, Alabama), I thought that, if nothing else, for all his heavy-handedness, and blanket arguments, Neil nevertheless made one good point in the song, with the line: "Don't forget what your Good Book said"
The second was Bruce Hornsby's 1986 song: The Way it Is
My own take was based upon my own Bible Studies as a youth, namely the notions of guilt assigned to a group (and passed on to subsequent generations), was based upon the scripture to be found in Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9 (KJV), which talks about guilt passed on unto the Fourth Generation. Hence, the idea that someone condemning and/or arbitrarily judging an entire group, (if they also proclaim to be a Bible-believer), is, by definition behaving if they think they somehow know more than G-d.
Beyond this, I think most of the other points I am trying to make are made quite succinctly in the piece, itself.
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Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9 (KJV), which talks about guilt passed on unto the Fourth Generation. Hence, the idea that someone condemning and/or arbitrarily judging an entire group
or could it simply mean it takes four generations to forget the guilt of an entire people for doing something... I am thinking of the Civil War as an example. When I was in third grade, it was the 100th anniversary. We all ran around with gray or blue hats, and toy soldiers were all the rage, but we did not understand the hatred still being bandied about by what one generation taught the next. My grandfather, a WWI vet, God Bless Him, would watch the Lawrence Welk show, and remark, 'Those darkies sure can dance.' He didn't mean anything bad by this, it was just a remark based upon what he was taught. His grandfather was in the Civil War.
Now days, most of those old times and monuments, and memories are gone. In this case, we are up to six generations.
Cheers,
Vix
or could it simply mean it takes four generations to forget the guilt of an entire people for doing something... I am thinking of the Civil War as an example. When I was in third grade, it was the 100th anniversary. We all ran around with gray or blue hats, and toy soldiers were all the rage, but we did not understand the hatred still being bandied about by what one generation taught the next. My grandfather, a WWI vet, God Bless Him, would watch the Lawrence Welk show, and remark, 'Those darkies sure can dance.' He didn't mean anything bad by this, it was just a remark based upon what he was taught. His grandfather was in the Civil War.
Now days, most of those old times and monuments, and memories are gone. In this case, we are up to six generations.
Cheers,
Vix
Yep, and there's some people so deeply-entrenched in their particular hatred of choice (of which there are many examples -- I'm not singling out any particular one) that they will hoard it and pass it on like treasured heirlooms for the next six HUNDRED generations, if they could...
Generally it only dies out when it finally runs into a solid wall of logic and common sense in some follow-on generation.
I would like to hope that, at least in some small way, I could be that solid wall. Especially since there were certain older members of even my own family, who kept certain beliefs alive, even in the face of solid and logical argumentation against them...
Generally it only dies out when it finally runs into a solid wall of logic and common sense in some follow-on generation.
I would like to hope that, at least in some small way, I could be that solid wall. Especially since there were certain older members of even my own family, who kept certain beliefs alive, even in the face of solid and logical argumentation against them...
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