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But this is my point. We are quite different culturally, socially, politically, and yet both of our nations provide levels of freedom that much of the rest of the world can only dream of. These states of freedom aren't of the same brand, they aren't derived from the same source, and yet there they are.
The threat of violence is not a prerequisite for maintaining freedom. However, one may find that violence is employed to protect it, as it has been in the past. But that's another story.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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