{"id":7882,"date":"2025-05-26T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7882"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:46:58","slug":"inexorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/inexorable\/","title":{"rendered":"Inexorable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Inexorable:&nbsp;&nbsp;impossible to stop or prevent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ice Age<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always think of the word \u201cinexorable\u201d when I think of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0There were humans around at the time, and I wonder what they thought of the changing climate.\u00a0\u00a0What was the \u201cnormal\u201d four seasons became a literal and eternal winter.\u00a0\u00a0The walls of ice moved slowly across \u201ctheir\u201d land, inexorably changed everything, even the hills and valleys.\u00a0\u00a0It must have seemed like a curse, like whatever deities they worshiped chose to punish them.\u00a0\u00a0The Nordic mythical \u201cHell\u201d was a place of eternal freezing; perhaps an ancestral memory of the Ice Age  contained in their DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, humans survived, they adapted, they even lived on the ice sheets.&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps, in one sense, the Ice Age pushed them intellectually, challenged them to discover differing ways of existing.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m sure a pre-historic human wouldn\u2019t think of the Ice Age as a \u201cblessing\u201d, but maybe it was, if you take the really, really, long view.&nbsp;&nbsp;The challenge forced them to adapt, to grow, to change; or to perish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also think of the word \u201cinexorable\u201d when I think of folks with terminal cancer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The disease is going to \u201cget them\u201d, it\u2019s going to take their lives.\u00a0\u00a0For some, it\u2019s a fight to the finish.\u00a0\u00a0For others, it\u2019s a time of surrender.\u00a0\u00a0And for still others, it\u2019s kind of an enlightenment, a freeing of \u201cearthly bonds and rules\u201d that allows them to transcend the tragedy they must live.\u00a0\u00a0The cancer will kill them, but on the way, it might \u201cfree\u201d them to be more human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">America\u2019s March to Justice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I always thought of the word \u201cinexorable\u201d when I thought of America\u2019s march towards a more free and inclusive nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a history teacher, I looked at progress through the Amendments to the Constitution, each adding a slice of inclusiveness.&nbsp;&nbsp;Just look at voting rights.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1788, the beginning of our Constitutional experiment, most states allowed only white men with property the right to vote.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then it became just white men.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 15<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Amendment added Black men to the eligible, though it took over a century for that to happen in real terms.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 17<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;gave Americans direct election of Senators, and the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;allowed women the right to vote, enfranchising over half of the population.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 23<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;added the District of Columbia to those that could elect a President, the 24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;banned a tax on the vote, and the 26<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;lowered the voting age to 18 years.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each time, more and more Americans gained the right to \u201cchime-in\u201d on our leaders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Melting Pot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And throughout American history, we have been a \u201cmelting pot\u201d of cultures and races, each adding a piece to the \u201cstory\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1960, it was a huge deal that a man of Irish descent, and even more, a Catholic, could be elected President.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s a limitation that I don\u2019t think would even cross someone\u2019s mind today.&nbsp;&nbsp;And in 2008, Barack Obama literally called the future; a Black man became President of the United States, something that even a few years before was unimaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, in 2012, I thought our national march to add to the \u201cpot\u201d, to include more and more differences to our character, was as inexorable as the Ice Age.&nbsp;&nbsp;I saw our \u201cstory\u201d in Martin Luther King\u2019s terms:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Celebration?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here in Pataskala, this year\u2019s Memorial Day (or at least the nights before) have been filled with fireworks, like the Fourth of July.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the Fourth is a celebration of Independence.&nbsp;&nbsp;Memorial Day is to remember the sacrifices of the past, and celebrate the consequence of their dedication.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cflash and bang\u201d of color doesn\u2019t seem appropriate now. What are we celebrating?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is Memorial Day 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;Memorial Day used to be, for me, a day of memory, but also of celebration. It was a day to remember sacrifice, the sacrifice of Americans who gave Lincoln\u2019s \u201clast full measure\u201d so that we could maintain our freedom and our \u201cinexorable\u201d path to justice.&nbsp;&nbsp;We celebrated their courage and dedication, and we rejoiced in the Nation they gave us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But today, in 2025, our \u201cmarch to justice\u201d doesn\u2019t seem so inexorable.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are not so sure today that the \u201carc of the moral universe\u201d is bending towards justice.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, in our short term, it\u2019s bending away from justice; just ask the immigrants, or the LGBTQIA, or those that might oppose Trump\u2019s plans for our nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">America\u2019s Fate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a history teacher, I look back on the times when the \u201cUSA\u201d didn\u2019t seem so inevitable.\u00a0\u00a0In 1863, when the Civil War became a grinding battle of \u201ctotal warfare\u201d, it must have seemed like there was no inevitability to the American experiment.\u00a0\u00a0In 1932, when the US Army itself was set upon the Word War I veterans protesting on the Washington Mall,  the &#8220;Bonus Army&#8221;, it must have felt to many that our experiment failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And even in my own lifetime, there was the ever-looming fear, like the glacier on the horizon, of nuclear holocaust.\u00a0\u00a0We knew that our \u201cinexorable path\u201d could be cut short in a blinding flash of searing light.\u00a0\u00a0For the survivors, if there were any, it would be like those early humans learning to live on the glaciers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Maybe, in some long, long, term, it would improve us, but nuclear nightmare would cut short our  current  march to freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My parents faced Fascism in World War II.&nbsp;&nbsp;They risked their lives to stop it.&nbsp;&nbsp;So didn\u2019t most of their generation, many of whom will receive flags on their gravesites today.&nbsp;&nbsp;My great-grandparent\u2019s generation fought a war to decide how America would be, enslaved or not.&nbsp;&nbsp;And some from the generations I taught in school paid the \u201clast full measure\u201d as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;They sacrificed for our shared \u201cdream\u201d of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memorial Day 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Memorial Day, the first of the Second Trump Administration, we should remember not only those that sacrificed \u2013 but why.&nbsp;&nbsp;They fought and sacrificed for their American \u201cdream\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And this Memorial Day we should take solace in their actions and courage.&nbsp;&nbsp;As Lincoln said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us\u2014that from these honored dead we 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