The Last Tyranny Of Man

It is 72 years today (12/05/1933-2005) since our society last yelped in defiance of the tyrant. Prohibitions free reign, like some unbridled apocalyptic horse, plunders our freedom to this day. The concept that man is something less has passed muster with the American society as a whole. Throughout the world with particular zeal in more oppressive regimes prohibition is pursued as social savior.

Now we send young men to kill and to die for something that is marred in our minds. The people they kill need it badly and our brave men pay the highest price willingly, so the fact that freedom has been redefined into some Orwellian new speak does not mare their life’s blood. Prohibitionists do love their flags.

For a host of reasons, all of which are inherently false, man has been separated from his behavior and left bare of his dignity and freedom. Drugs have transubstantiated. In the primitive part of the American psyche cause and effect blurred and when the image cleared drugs were making the decisions. Mr. Hyde was in charge; Dr. Jekyll was simply along for the ride. Americans do love their fiction.

Rick Wolfe