David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

Possible SPOILER ALERT DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT FINISHED or JUST STARTED READING
So I was thinking of Cloud Atlas

DO NOT continue reading if you are just beginning

Specifically the first chapter the introduction of Adam Ewing, Adam Ewing is innocent, idealistic, naive, easily deceived, and completely without a clue as to his purpose in life, and his understanding of events as they unfold.

And I couldn't help but think what a wonderful metaphor because Adam Ewing represents us the reader as we embark upon our adventure of David Mitchell's epic journey on Cloud Atlas. Unlike the reader Adam is presented with an opportunity to have learned from his journey as a result of so many "big moments."

I was most impressed with Adam when at the end he realized that yes great moments are presented to us. Those moments dont make great or cowards, when we rise up and realize that these moments are opportunities and that how we respond is what makes us courageous or cowards but even time changes the very meaning of courage and cowardice. Yesterday's rebel, terrorist, enemy of the state, is tomorrow's freedom fighter and vice versa.

Go back in time and ask the British aristocracy if our Founding Fathers were heroes at the time? And even some in the colonies were content to remain under British rule after all it was a known familiar method of rule the new born Democracy was quite frankly SHOCKING fast forward 200 years later....

Our PR campaign to paint ourselves as sinner or saints is for nothing because history will determine where we will be placed in the grand continuum for the benefit of society....