Dangerous Cowards

There was an earlier time that came to mind this day I heard dangerous fears and angers called cowardice instead, back 200 years ago in the United States, when Northern industrialists, relying on southern cotton to mill fabrics clothing cotton-picking slaves and other whiter folks, joined Southern slave-owners to refer to Abolitionists as cowards. Moral cowards for threatening Orthodox ecopolitical viability as it was misunderstood in that 200 year old time and place. Naming radicalized revolutionaries Cowards might provoke despair to further points of violence against innocents, the non-bullies of democratic process, majority rule, but will not dissuade inpatient intolerance of their view that what we say of them is what we, in fact, are. Whether this radicalized voice and action is to Abolish further violence, further buying and selling of sacred nature further hubris of owning what can only be gifted, borrowed through mutual consent, or to Abolish established inclusive democratic peace, makes all the morally healthy difference. Yet, in either case, whether healthy or pathological radicalization, naming the Abolisher a coward and a fool needing to be stamped out will merely spread this nascent revolution toward further violence growing higher boundaries to hopes for cooperative sanity. When we look behind the normal public tour of terrorist acts and actors, the rhetorical reviews and guided stories most frequently told, we are likely to find a long familiar risk to public health; variations on cultures of patriarchal abuse, matriarchal neglect, and desecration of RightBrain ecopolitical equivalence. For this reason, if no other, choosing emasculating words like cowardly and disloyal and unfaithful, is a choice to notice only deception while revolutionary inception festers into flowering further blasts of suppressed anger hyped up hate furthering Earth's climates of pathological fear.