Greetings good citizen,
Seems as though the only people visiting the new page are the folks who ensure you’re complying with the terms of service…which doesn’t bother me at all.
Truth be told I ‘catch’ myself (when I’m composing) all the time. The angst that I let flow freely behind the firewall doesn’t like being ‘redirected’ into, er; ‘less provocative’ terms.
However, the time has come (and for my longtime readers I add ‘once again’) to discuss the ‘purpose’ behind this blog.
While I am very ‘opinionated’, I don’t try to tell you what to think. I feel I have my work cut out just trying to provide you with things to think about.
So the focus here is not ‘what to think’ but merely to think…as in ‘at all’.
One of the obstacles I encountered in trying to popularize A Simple Plan was nobody felt the need to learn a better way of doing things. Their parents taught them what to do and they’d teach their kids, worked for them and it will work (sort of) for you.
No irony should be lost on the fact that YOU dear reader, are the first generation (since the founding of this nation) that this strategy WILL NOT work for.
You CAN’T tell your kids what your parents told YOU because THIS ISN’T THAT WORLD ANYMORE!
The now famous “Go along to get along” advice is more likely to get your children killed than to help them move ahead in life.
What advice DO YOU give your children these days?
Sorry, can’t help you out because if WE don’t derail this crazy train there won’t be anything left to save!
Sort of brings us full circle to the need to discuss ‘alternatives’ to the way things get done now.
Your parents didn’t have to worry about such things, survivors of the Great Depression and TWO ‘wars to end all wars’; they know what worked and how to make the world ‘tick’.
But that’s not the world their kids have left for yours.
The New Deal planted a rather insidious seed in the minds of the privileged few…and the fact that they nearly destroyed the world’s economy AND THEY WEREN’T PUNISHED FOR IT wasn’t lost on these people born with a sense of entitlement.
Oh how their parents ‘suffered’ paying those workers all of that money they would have had to pay the tax man! (And that’s the only reason companies ‘competed’ for help…they don’t do it in Banana Republics because the government doesn’t dare tax them the way the New Deal Democrats taxed the Wall Streeters!)
Now it’s a hundred years later and we’re right back where it all began! Only this time there is nobody on the side of the downtrodden and destitute.
Because the One Percent has added a ‘lead lining’ to the go along to get along canard. You either do what they tell you or they’ll find somebody who will (and YOU’LL never work in this town again! A ‘hangover’ from the old days.)
While this tactic is the main ingredient opposing armies are made of; nobody has the backing to field the force these battalions of the ‘dispossessed’ can bring to bear.
Thus do the ‘entitled’ continue to press their advantage.
While whole armies of the dazed and confused remain clueless as to what to do about it.
Because nobody remembers that our government was designed by the very same ‘entitled people’ we are unable to wrest control from now.
Not that most of you need any convincing that we have some dangerous if not downright ‘feral’ people in charge of, well, the world as it turns out right now.
If we, the governed, don’t clip their wings (and soon) we will be unable to.
Although the ‘bad news’ is we don’t have the tools to clip their wings with…and you’d think the people who had just fought a bloody revolution would have thought about that but no. The ones who get to decide what comes next get to toss out any ‘limitations’ on their ambitions!
Thus do we have an empty toolbox.
We shouldn’t feel bad, everybody else has a system modeled after ours…so they’re tool-less to!
Which brings us to the topic of what are we fighting for and what can we ‘replace’ the current broken system with?
Because if we only change who’s in charge, our kids will find themselves faced with the same problems we face today.
It’s not ‘who’ runs thing but HOW THEY ARE RUN that MUST BE changed!
And that’s what the next series of posts will touch upon, an ‘alternative’ to how things are currently done.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Seems as though the only people visiting the new page are the folks who ensure you’re complying with the terms of service…which doesn’t bother me at all.
Truth be told I ‘catch’ myself (when I’m composing) all the time. The angst that I let flow freely behind the firewall doesn’t like being ‘redirected’ into, er; ‘less provocative’ terms.
However, the time has come (and for my longtime readers I add ‘once again’) to discuss the ‘purpose’ behind this blog.
While I am very ‘opinionated’, I don’t try to tell you what to think. I feel I have my work cut out just trying to provide you with things to think about.
So the focus here is not ‘what to think’ but merely to think…as in ‘at all’.
One of the obstacles I encountered in trying to popularize A Simple Plan was nobody felt the need to learn a better way of doing things. Their parents taught them what to do and they’d teach their kids, worked for them and it will work (sort of) for you.
No irony should be lost on the fact that YOU dear reader, are the first generation (since the founding of this nation) that this strategy WILL NOT work for.
You CAN’T tell your kids what your parents told YOU because THIS ISN’T THAT WORLD ANYMORE!
The now famous “Go along to get along” advice is more likely to get your children killed than to help them move ahead in life.
What advice DO YOU give your children these days?
Sorry, can’t help you out because if WE don’t derail this crazy train there won’t be anything left to save!
Sort of brings us full circle to the need to discuss ‘alternatives’ to the way things get done now.
Your parents didn’t have to worry about such things, survivors of the Great Depression and TWO ‘wars to end all wars’; they know what worked and how to make the world ‘tick’.
But that’s not the world their kids have left for yours.
The New Deal planted a rather insidious seed in the minds of the privileged few…and the fact that they nearly destroyed the world’s economy AND THEY WEREN’T PUNISHED FOR IT wasn’t lost on these people born with a sense of entitlement.
Oh how their parents ‘suffered’ paying those workers all of that money they would have had to pay the tax man! (And that’s the only reason companies ‘competed’ for help…they don’t do it in Banana Republics because the government doesn’t dare tax them the way the New Deal Democrats taxed the Wall Streeters!)
Now it’s a hundred years later and we’re right back where it all began! Only this time there is nobody on the side of the downtrodden and destitute.
Because the One Percent has added a ‘lead lining’ to the go along to get along canard. You either do what they tell you or they’ll find somebody who will (and YOU’LL never work in this town again! A ‘hangover’ from the old days.)
While this tactic is the main ingredient opposing armies are made of; nobody has the backing to field the force these battalions of the ‘dispossessed’ can bring to bear.
Thus do the ‘entitled’ continue to press their advantage.
While whole armies of the dazed and confused remain clueless as to what to do about it.
Because nobody remembers that our government was designed by the very same ‘entitled people’ we are unable to wrest control from now.
Not that most of you need any convincing that we have some dangerous if not downright ‘feral’ people in charge of, well, the world as it turns out right now.
If we, the governed, don’t clip their wings (and soon) we will be unable to.
Although the ‘bad news’ is we don’t have the tools to clip their wings with…and you’d think the people who had just fought a bloody revolution would have thought about that but no. The ones who get to decide what comes next get to toss out any ‘limitations’ on their ambitions!
Thus do we have an empty toolbox.
We shouldn’t feel bad, everybody else has a system modeled after ours…so they’re tool-less to!
Which brings us to the topic of what are we fighting for and what can we ‘replace’ the current broken system with?
Because if we only change who’s in charge, our kids will find themselves faced with the same problems we face today.
It’s not ‘who’ runs thing but HOW THEY ARE RUN that MUST BE changed!
And that’s what the next series of posts will touch upon, an ‘alternative’ to how things are currently done.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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