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INTRODUCTION TO "FORCES OF NATURE" CONTINUES
the man who derived his fortune from that mine. It is said that war is one stranger killing another stranger to benefit a third person
who is a stranger to both. Thanks to this force of Nature, a sad reality of war is that people with the least usually sacrifice the
most while people with the most sacrifice the least.
The sixth and final story “The Wall” examines the irrational and self-destructive
resistance of people with values and beliefs formed early in life (in this case County officials and prominent citizens of a small
Tennessee town) to new ideas or people with different values (a retired history teacher who objects to posters displayed at a government
complex which distort American history for religious purposes). As one science teacher explains in jest, this can be explained by
the formation of a bone-like membrane in the brain which acts as a protective mechanism against outside influences, such as contradictory
facts, new ideas or changes, which are encountered after the creation of the membrane usually before adolescence. These people constitute
a separate type of human called homo sapiens mens ossis or MOs. This story incorporates elements from a January 2011
legal case in which a retired airline pilot successfully fought Johnson County officials over posters displayed by the Ten Commandments
Warriors at the County Courthouse in Mountain City, Tennessee. This force of Nature is also at work in climate change denial as well
as the fight to stop evolution being taught in schools. As “The Wall” shows, it can be as destructive of a community as any natural
disaster.
More detail about “Forces of Nature” can be found in a detailed story outline and an “Author Interview”, both available upon request.
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