For anyone that knows me, they will tell you I love to use quotes from movies to make an analogy on life. Now whether or not the writers meant for my interpretations or not is up to anyone's guess. However, this is how I see it fit in to the world that we live in.
For a moment, let us reflect back on what Loki in the 2012 movie the Avengers tells the crowd as he makes an attempt at subjugating them.
Now let us explore.
Everyday, we see people that "take the easy way out". It is easier to drop of of school then it is to finish. It is easier to get EBT then to seek out a job. It is easier to live off a system that feeds on your being dependent on it rather then allowing yourself to determine your own fate. It is easier to let mass media determine what makes you "unique" rather then you declaring to the world who you are minus the cookie cutter. It is certainly easier to not look beyond the borders of your own home and do something to make a difference. In other words, it is easier to take the easy way out and "kneel".
Sadly, the truth is it is so much easier to blame others for ones problems, to get ones sustenance, and/or to sit and complain about the state of affairs of the world rather then doing something about. For some of us, we get caught up in the day to day and it does take a lot of people. For others, we don't even try to understand what is going on around the city we live in much less the world we live in but damn sure feel entitled to everything. And still for many others they would be somewhere in between.
We have seen where "kneeling" (both literally and figuratively) has gotten us. So what can one as a lone person do?
You Stand!
Again, looking back to the video above, we could all take a lesson from the Elder German Gentlemen facing Loki. My interpretation on his actions are as follows: He was a Holocaust survivor. He knew that he did not have a chance against a younger man much less a Demigod such as Loki. Yet he stood. He stood because he knew that someone had to. He made a choice, with the fear that had to accompany that event, to stand tall against a would be tyrant. He stood for what is right.
This is the challenge that all of us must face in today's world. We need to stand up in our local political arenas; because the truth of the matter is that all politics is local and spreads out from there. We need to stand up against the thugs that plague our communities; because people randomly knocking folks out or committing other crimes in our communities will eventually come back to us. We must stand up for our American Values; because if we stay silent too long those values will be nothing more then the stuff of legend.
Personally and a silly as this may sound, Captain America has always been a hero of mine and continues to be. I realize that as a character he is nothing but a work of fiction but it is what he stands for. If you know the history of Captain America you know he has the advantage of the Super Soldier Serum. The Elder German Gentleman does not have this advantage.
There is no harm in aspiring to be like Captain America but perhaps we should all start trying to be like the Elder German Gentlemen. As the good Captain is a work of fiction, the Elder in the video is but one example of the hundreds of thousands that have stood in the world of the real against a tyrant. Perhaps we should all start and do the hardest thing there is in today's world of political correctiveness (is that even a word?) and American Taboos and take a stand.
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