Brutus

Last weekend, we went to a performance of Julius Caesar by the Nevada Shakespeare festival. As to be expected from other productions, it was a raucous dark tragedy. It highlighted the conundrum of Brutus, a man in power confronted with the inequality of his time. The elites had it great, but the masses were restless, ready to give away their freedom to Julius Caesar. Do you just roll over and join the crowd? Would killing that would-be tyrant fix the broken dynamic? Brutus chose the dagger and found the structural failure was bigger than one great man. He should have followed Lao Tze into the wild west. Brutus had rather be a villagerThan to repute himself a son of RomeUnder these hard conditions as this time Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2 , Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge.…