Our present analogy to” lighthouses” refers to the traditional structures erected and operated to emit light to serve as a guiding beam to ships for navigational purposes’. In this writing, we employ such a phenomenon in an analogical fashion to the subject of the present peril to the democratic endurance of the Nation, currently threatened by the hazardous shoals of ignorance and political harm residing in the swirling currents of popular ignorance and reductive bias. The eponymous lighthouse keeper, nevertheless, dutifully maintains the directional light and monitors the weather and sea conditions in the responsible interest of ship safety.
This writing is an expression of a long-overdue fanfare and appropriately deserved tribute to those praiseworthy individuals who, despite the prevailing dystopian and unjust course of political turmoil, besetting our Democratic Republic, dutifully continue to keep the eternal light of reason from fading, and serve as guides to the continued path of the human exercise of moral advancement. History has consistently demonstrated that enlightened reason is the route to empirical wisdom and human success, and that the inexorable course of medieval Europe’s “Dark Ages” evincing non-empirical “knowledge” is the predictable way to tragedy, injustice, and human misery.
We would notably prefer that society’s enlightened, rational, and dedicated citizenry make its presence more affirmative and overt. Society’s subtle but invaluable guardians of rectitude and humanism, it is our analogously named “lighthouse keepers,” that, vitally and admirably, sustain the shaky guardrails of our vulnerable polity against its existential collision with the dark and ghastly. shoals of autocratic disaster.
Our trumpets blow strident fanfare, our drums beat dauntless tattoos, and our voices thunderously cry out the praises of the dauntless citizens, teachers, librarians, social workers, scientists, and all citizens eternally working toward the return to our traditional democracy and its ongoing progress toward full equality and personal fulfillment. We have earnest confidence in the consummate return of traditional American democracy, regarding which we bestow our kudos to our beleaguered, albeit adamantly humanistic and confident lighthouse keepers.
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