Paladin’s AMERICAN GOMORRAH ™ “Two Impostors” Edition
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
An excerpt from IF by Rudyard Kipling, written for his only son John, who died in 1915 on the Western Front. He was only 18.
Paladin knows a few millennials – half of them never read a Kipling poem or anything else by him. Most of them know only the Disney plushie versions of his tales. And the other half wouldn’t read Kipling because they have been instructed to consider the man a privileged white race criminal worthy only of revulsion, censor and book burning.