So since my last post, I've been doing a lot of reading, watching, 'net news surfing, and just simply thinking about a lot of stuff that goes on in the world....and most of the conclusions I come to are not very flattering to people in general.
First, as a rule, we are sheep. We like to be spoon fed our information. This is so wrong on so many levels, it's hard to enumerate them all. But to put it simply, if you rely on one source for your information, you become afflicted with the bias or viewpoint of your supplier.....and the credibility of journalism went out the window long ago. There is no longer an unbiased viewpoint (Sorry, Foxnews, even you guys skew it your way. At least, it is a refreshing change from the CNN bullshit). No longer can you pick up a newspaper and be assured that what you are reading is "just the facts, ma'am." I can't pinpoint when exactly it happened, but I first started noticing it in the mid 1990's, and it progressively gets worse with time. This is why I began teaching my kids to question everything they hear, see, or read, and to verify the veracity of the information by using a variety of sources.
Next, we are hard-headed and close-minded as a group. If you say something that someone else disagrees with, suddenly you are stupid, irrational, uneducated, and just plain wrong. Free speech is fast becoming a thing of the past, because suddenly you can't disagree with what the President or any of his cronies say or do. If you do, you are guilty of at the least, misunderstanding them or at the worst you are considered seditious. Forget the First Amendment, because in so many's eyes, the Constitution does not exist. We need to open our eyes and our ears and listen to what is actually being said, and see what is actually going on around us. And we need to open our mouths, use our pens, and our keyboards, and speak out against what is wrong and support what is right. Or it will get worse, and suddenly little obscure blogs like this one will be outlawed.
We need to quit abdicating our responsibilities, both as citizens and as parents, to others. Quit letting others make our decisions for us. If we continue to allow this, sooner or later it won't even be our decision when or what to eat, or how to dress, much less how to vote or discipline our kids. We are told by our govt and our teachers and so on that our kids are fat and lazy and stupid, and they, the enlightened ones, are the answer to solving these problems. Only they don't...they make them worse by not holding them accountable for their actions. By not teaching the subjects they are paid to teach, instead showing movies during class time and teaching solely so the kids might score well on the state's standardized tests, so that it looks like the teachers are doing their jobs. They expect us to abdicate our parental duties at the school door and let the school system teach them that alternative lifestyles and condoms are the greatest thing since Liza Minelli...... and we the parents who try to teach our kids right from wrong and that certain actions have certain consequences and so on are told we are in the wrong, that we are warping our kids.
Everything is leading to a huge Nanny State. Where the govt is our daddy and provides for us and our needs. Where we don't have to make decisions for ourselves. Where we are told what to do and who to be and what to do with our lives.
Yeah. Ask the USSR how well that worked for them......oh you can't? They no longer exist as such? Well, folks, guess where our reality is headed....................
