"As usual, Night Vale, a lot happened during the weather. And we missed it. Not because I wasn't reporting on it, but because we were not there to experience it. Witnesses are reporting what they saw today, but no witnesses joined in. The witnesses, weak and watching, only witnessed.
Listeners, oh listeners: The band of well-read child revolutionaries, including their leader (and only hero our town had left) Tamika Flynn, have been captured by a StrexCorp security team. Tamika led a great revolt to rid our town of a terrible evil & restore the original, less terrible evil that preceded it. But no one showed up. They only watched.
She called to you. I called to you, Night Vale. But there just weren't enough of us. [...] Tamika, just before her arrest, calmly waved a heavily notated copy of Bertolt Brecht's “Life of Galileo”. She then paraphrased the influential German playwright, saying "Sad is not the land that has no hero. Sad is the land that needs a hero." [...]
Night Vale, I tried to tell you about this day. I was very clear. Tamika was very clear. We could have done something, Night Vale, but we chose not to. Not one citizen outside of Tamika and her band of brilliant, brave children stood up to tyranny today. We all chose to stand down and hope change would be won for us, and not by us. By someone else, we believed. A hero, we believed.
But belief is only Step One. Action is Step Two. Fighting for what you believe is Step Two. Solidarity is Step Two. Unity is Step Two. We did not take Step Two today, Night Vale. And now there will be no Step Three. We have failed Tamika, but worse, we have failed ourselves."
Listeners, oh listeners: The band of well-read child revolutionaries, including their leader (and only hero our town had left) Tamika Flynn, have been captured by a StrexCorp security team. Tamika led a great revolt to rid our town of a terrible evil & restore the original, less terrible evil that preceded it. But no one showed up. They only watched.
She called to you. I called to you, Night Vale. But there just weren't enough of us. [...] Tamika, just before her arrest, calmly waved a heavily notated copy of Bertolt Brecht's “Life of Galileo”. She then paraphrased the influential German playwright, saying "Sad is not the land that has no hero. Sad is the land that needs a hero." [...]
Night Vale, I tried to tell you about this day. I was very clear. Tamika was very clear. We could have done something, Night Vale, but we chose not to. Not one citizen outside of Tamika and her band of brilliant, brave children stood up to tyranny today. We all chose to stand down and hope change would be won for us, and not by us. By someone else, we believed. A hero, we believed.
But belief is only Step One. Action is Step Two. Fighting for what you believe is Step Two. Solidarity is Step Two. Unity is Step Two. We did not take Step Two today, Night Vale. And now there will be no Step Three. We have failed Tamika, but worse, we have failed ourselves."
—Cecil Palmer, Welcome To Night Vale Ep 46 Parade Day
