Classical Myth -- Barry Powell -- although head of the state, to the contemporary Athenian Creon is transparent as the sort of Tyrant (I am the law) against which the Athenian democracy struggled...the danger was always great that one man would gain enough personal power to be a king.

Elbows up, Canada.

No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship -- Orwell, 1984.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Puppet Presidents command
Puppet troops to burn the land

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

He knows what's up. We need more poets.

#Back40festival coffee house next Friday at Winkler Arts and Culture. We'll be honoring the songs of #Kriskristofferson.