United by a common foe

I suppose if you were trying to come up with a symbol of what unites a lot of the good guys and the nearly good guys and the women tired of looking over their shoulder for civilisational suicide's latest threat to themselves and their families, you could do a lot worse than the 'is not equal' sign used in mathematics.

USA is not equal to the UK is not equal to France is not equal to Syria is not equal to China.

Bombing parts of the Middle East is not equal to peace is not equal to security.

Democracy is not equal to freedom is not equal to safety is not equal to  good government.

Feeling is not equal to thought is not equal to fact is not equal to truth is not equal to wisdom is not equal to justice.

A man is not equal to a woman is not equal to a child is not equal to someone who thinks it's a unicorn is not equal to God is not equal to fate is not equal to Darwin.

Payment to the idle is not equal to work is not equal to the value of marriage is not equal to the price you'd pay to preserve the good.

Funny how the word equal starts to look meaningless the more you look at it.

Saves all that fretting over various crosses and runes and letters in which script which means what in which language, yeah?

Only saying.




Picture from here.