Thoughts prompted by morning's reading

Reading more about our Greenlanders hasn't gone as rosily as expected, and Gunnar's son has been burned at the stake for sleeping with an Icelandic woman. As it says in the book, 'The punishment had fit the crime fantastically, like a huge man's robe on a tiny child.'

I started thinking a little, and came up with another of my short sayings, or proverbs. I thought about a society... actually I think my mind had wandered to voting, and I briefly remembered a blog post where the author said he didn't vote, because he didn't know enough. I thought to myself, that's part of the same reason I don't vote, the other and slightly greater part being the fact that the person before me on the paper is only there because of funding, either his/her own deep pockets or the deep pockets of someone, that someone not being struggling middle class peons.

That led me to think of the community level politics, and there I take the tack that if I lived with the right people, they would be voting as I would, and the folks in office would do the job as though I had voted for them.

I thought to myself, I'd be willing to move if the community started burning the wrong people at the stake (to relate this all back to what I was reading), but I know in my heart that sometimes I'm braver in thought than I am in action, especially as I get older. In my mind, as I moved from place to place, bumped because the community was either too liberal, or too supersitious, I ached for a place where I would have no complaints, where evil was identified correctly, and the solution identified correctly. I think I've forgotten my proverb, but it ran something like this:

"Most communities are either too liberal or too superstitious."

I then thought about the two words, liberal and superstitious, and wondered whether they were the right words. Some people are superstitious in their defense of the liberal point of view, and some people are liberal in their defense of their superstitious point of view. By superstitious I would encompass conservative, religious, just-because, and close-minded people. With the word liberal, I mean all those people who are less superstitious than I am.