Lines

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

~ G. K. Chesterton

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We do like our lines, don't we?  Dualism is comfortable.  A single right and many wrongs.  A single right and many without rights.  And one definition of what those rights are.  Things outside of the "good" or "right" category are wrong.  Simplicity.  No gray areas. 

 

Power lines.  Baselines.  Boundary lines.  Clotheslines.  Waiting lines. 

 

Rules.  Regulations.  Structure.  Clarity.  Conformity. 

 

Are these good things?  I guess sometimes they are.  Complete chaos isn't always good.  Somewhere in the middle is what is best, I guess.  I suppose it is a sliding scale.  At some times or in some situations we want more structure.  At other times we want more flexibilty and autonomy.  That makes sense.  There are lots of questions for us to consider and lots of thoughts we can think when it comes to lines, though. 

 

Perhaps most importantly we have to ask ourselves is "the bottom line" really just the butt crack?