If you have read this blog post, you know that I view the world as a dark and dangerous place made bearable only by the cooperative efforts of man.  It should come as no surprise that I also believe that man is inherently selfish, acting to promote his survival above the survival of others.  I make no judgment call with that statement:  it is just the way things are.  But I also believe that our sentience allows us to analyze our instinctual behavior and override it if necessary.  

For example, I may feel compelled to keep cash found in a lost wallet because the money will help me survive.  However, my sentience allows me to recognize that returning the wallet and its contents benefits me more because it helps to strengthen the cooperative bond that men have created to battle off the harsh realities of nature.  I subscribe to Kant’s categorical imperative, and I think that returning a wallet with the contents intact should be a universal law because it promotes identical action from others. 

Which brings me to my point (and yes, I am making an effort to shorten my long-winded diatribes):  in the face of continued disappointment, roadblocks, trespass, and frustration, why fight?  Why should I continue to write what I write when few read it and even fewer take from it anything of value?  Why should I try to help others see the damage a media so filled with hate has done to our national fabric when few believe it and even fewer care?  Why should I attempt to help people understand the path that needs to be taken in order for our nation to become a single entity again, when everyone is preoccupied with the luxuries of modern life?

This is why I fight.  Watch it - the whole video - and learn why I do what I do.  The victim in that video never gave up hope that survival was possible; the victim’s family never gave up hope that the victim could be salvaged.  Combined, they slapped their aggressors in the face, and overcame overwhelming and absolutely stunning odds. 

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing to stop it.  And even if those seeking the destruction of my political ideology succeed in my lifetime, I will hopefully fall to their spears with a shield in one hand and a bloodied sword in the other, not for the sake of glory, but for the sake of example.  I am cognizant of the fact that I alone will do little to change the world; but I am certain that my fight will inspire others to do the same.  I may never see the wrongs I have witnessed made right, but I fight with the hope that future generations will.

Winston Churchill said it best:  “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”