Metaphors to Muse Upon: Pirates (Part 5 - Playah's)

* Playah's -By the end of Morgan's career, he and his fleet of Buccanneers had very nearly harassed Spain into bankruptcy and brought England forward as a key player in the New World. So often we hear about nations who rise and fall at the success of their diplomacy or their armies, but in this case, it was actually the Crown that owed its eventual prosperity to a group of people it had only loosely backed, and even sometimes double-crossed for convenient deals or unstable truces with longstanding enemies. I wonder sometimes whether or not the same could be said of us. Can we sometimes save our own nations, families, churches, whatever, possibly by means that are completely other than those established by/through conventional norms or what has worked for centuries? What if, in another hundred years, the powers that be look back on private bands of men and women who pulled loosely-bound, rag-tag groups of outsiders together to systematically reinvent the support structures that they then depend upon rather than established government systems or long-standing social structures? I wonder... i wonder what a recipe that added Jesus to Morgan might look like in our current day. I think i'd like to find out. I think that we're trying. Doubtless, as we experiment here at GCC, the solutions don't involve larceny, murder or torture, but i wonder if they could be just as audacious and big, just as innovative and pioneering.