"Man the Fort"
Published on 2024 | Revised on 2025-03-14
There's a saying
"When the Romans left England the pigs got smaller"
Its hard to defend a castle when it's under siege and you're also not there
Its even harder to deflect artillery fire with WhatsApp
awol (adj.):
military initialism (acronym) for absent without leave (the phrase itself is attested by 1767 in a military context). In U.S. military use by 1917. According to the "Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage" (1957), it was pronounced as four letters in World War I, as a word in World War II. etymonline
The people you grew up with were meant to stay with you - and you with them - for life
No one leaves to go to another school, company, country...
Addendum
A small country has fewer people.
Though there are machines that can work ten to a hundred times faster than man, they are not needed.
The people take death seriously and do not travel far.
Though they have boats and carriages, no on uses them.
Though they have armor and weapons, no one displays them.
Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing.
Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple, their homes secure;
They are happy in their ways.
Though they live within sight of their neighbors,
And crowing cocks and barking dogs are heard across the way,
Yet they leave each other in peace while they grow old and die."
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Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 80