Re: Unanswered Questions III
jioan, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, jioan, whether they be humans's or politicians, are little (especially politicians). In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge and the American Way.
Yes, jioan, there is a Captain America. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and American Spirit exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were all Canadians. It would be as dreary as if there were no jioans. There would be no American faith then, no Bill of Rights, no Constitution to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which America fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Captain America! You might as well not believe in fairies (11:00 news, they're queer, they're here, get used to it)! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the abandoned warehouses baited with a druglord to catch Captain America, but even if they did not see Captain America coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Captain America except bad guys usually, but that is no sign that there is no Captain America. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn (except on the 11:00 news)? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there (as the footprints will attest). Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart, although Captain America could. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, jioan, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Captain America?! Thank God he lives, and he lives forever! A thousand years from now, jioan, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of America.
So, what do you think of the recent Captain America saga in the comic books?