So, what’s the second battle? The process of healing everyone’s souls to become like Lancelot’s?
To freely love and become their own dragon slayer? Do we end there because making everyone not into an asshole is its own complicated journey that likely deserves its own narrative?
I enjoyed your writing and interpretation of this - honestly makes me want to see the play or at least read it. It however has left me with so many questions, which maybe is the point.
When the regime falls, the whole government should change, not just the head of it, i.e. lustration—e.g. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany did it, but Russia did not and you can see the difference now. And of course, after years of lies, truth must be told to the population, fair institutions must be established, ensure free speech, etc., all of which undoubtedly will be a painful process, but a necessary one. So—telling the truth and removing from power those who were involve in weaving lies would lower chances of the dragon surviving. It's also a Fathers vs Sons problem in a way, as generations change, the beliefs of people would change if truth and freedom are ensured.
So, what’s the second battle? The process of healing everyone’s souls to become like Lancelot’s?
To freely love and become their own dragon slayer? Do we end there because making everyone not into an asshole is its own complicated journey that likely deserves its own narrative?
I enjoyed your writing and interpretation of this - honestly makes me want to see the play or at least read it. It however has left me with so many questions, which maybe is the point.
When the regime falls, the whole government should change, not just the head of it, i.e. lustration—e.g. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany did it, but Russia did not and you can see the difference now. And of course, after years of lies, truth must be told to the population, fair institutions must be established, ensure free speech, etc., all of which undoubtedly will be a painful process, but a necessary one. So—telling the truth and removing from power those who were involve in weaving lies would lower chances of the dragon surviving. It's also a Fathers vs Sons problem in a way, as generations change, the beliefs of people would change if truth and freedom are ensured.
The second battle is to stop lying—to others and, not less importantly, to ourselves.
Yeah, this is unhappy reading in the year of our Lord 2024. Necessary, though.
Now I will have to strike Schwartz from my list of future posts :) But maybe I will write about "The Shadow".
YES, I haven’t read it yet, but would be extremely interested