Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.
The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.