This is a failure point in my writing history. To date, more than 50,000,000 words remain incomplete and unpublished since my last Hearthside Reflection at Freedom House. Five books written: one published, four discarded. 5,000 articles unpublished. That needs to change. What isn’t said can’t be heard. In other words, there are things to say.
Leather and steel go together. In my mind, they represent tough solutions for tough circumstances, ideally represented by a knife in its sheath, hanging from a belt. Joined by stone and fiber, they become life’s inanimate, non-nutritive comforts.
They once did, anyway. Windows, Linux, I-phones and Androids may be those things to newer generations. I say that without rancor. There is little reason in daily life for most of us to even think about this primitive “survival” type of stuff. Just call somebody, or look it up on the internet. If that isn’t enough, learning might not help.
Leather and steel mean different things. In them, I see knights and valor, strength, toughness, protection, even honor and good works. Steel and leather can represent the lowest debased aspects and elements of society, too. For some, they mean violence, gang activity; to others, prostitution or sexual perversion. Why? Precisely because leather and steel fell away from our “normal, everyday” experience, they tend to reappear as “Fantastical” or “exotic.” I strongly suspect the association with knights, motorcycle bad boys, or prostitutes depends on worldview.
That goal underlies everything. Our worldview (paradigm, perspective, cause, reason, and direction) often means more to us than truth, even if truth remains our stated objective! Even if we feel as if we never ignore the truth.
Atheistic vs Christian worldview, for instance, always recurse to a preferred definition of “God.” The atheist consistently fails to understand, “And God said.” They can only see to that end, and by golly, what a fool’s errand to turn every argument into, “And God said,” with no regard for physics!
That argument would be 100% appropriate if there was no God! It is pure idiocy to an atheist to even suggest such a thing. The Christian says, “‘And God said.’ That means, ‘God tells me where to look for the physics.'” That’s why so many Bible believers of history were able to find the truth that atheists wander about in the wilderness searching for.
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