"We need to put on the record..." This simple phrase, more than anything else you have written, grips my mind with the realization that we are living the writing of history...that this is the record on which future generations will form an opinion of us.
We will be seen as a time of apathy, as drunkenly sunk into our own lives and willi…
"We need to put on the record..." This simple phrase, more than anything else you have written, grips my mind with the realization that we are living the writing of history...that this is the record on which future generations will form an opinion of us.
We will be seen as a time of apathy, as drunkenly sunk into our own lives and willing to ignore violence as the Russians who bought liquor (intentionally priced cheaply by the state so they would not have the coherence to revolt against the ruling classes). We stupefy ourselves with materialism, with individualism, with political correctness, while money controls our leaders. Children, churches, middle class shoppers, young dancers, and parade goers. There is no safety in this apathy. There is only shame that will live on into the future.
Spot on, Kem. Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech is more prescient by the day. Serving primarily our own immediate needs and gratification is a dead end, and those who see it as a virtue have the whole idea of freedom twisted into the least edible pretzel. Apathy is the true enemy, and knowledge is the most vital power. More people have that power than ever before. Get rid of the apathy and we can weild it more collectively!
We, Americans, are imprisoned by our guns and our neighbors' guns. We are killing each other, just as the country's 'owners' knew we would. We are killers and 'they' put us up to it. We are the dying of America's history.
"We need to put on the record..." This simple phrase, more than anything else you have written, grips my mind with the realization that we are living the writing of history...that this is the record on which future generations will form an opinion of us.
We will be seen as a time of apathy, as drunkenly sunk into our own lives and willing to ignore violence as the Russians who bought liquor (intentionally priced cheaply by the state so they would not have the coherence to revolt against the ruling classes). We stupefy ourselves with materialism, with individualism, with political correctness, while money controls our leaders. Children, churches, middle class shoppers, young dancers, and parade goers. There is no safety in this apathy. There is only shame that will live on into the future.
We know the perpetrators, yet they go unpunished. The media “both sides” us to DEATH. We live in a shooting gallery and we are the ducks…
Spot on, Kem. Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech is more prescient by the day. Serving primarily our own immediate needs and gratification is a dead end, and those who see it as a virtue have the whole idea of freedom twisted into the least edible pretzel. Apathy is the true enemy, and knowledge is the most vital power. More people have that power than ever before. Get rid of the apathy and we can weild it more collectively!
We, Americans, are imprisoned by our guns and our neighbors' guns. We are killing each other, just as the country's 'owners' knew we would. We are killers and 'they' put us up to it. We are the dying of America's history.
So well said, KEM… regretfully.
Truth. I am heavy with sadness, unsure how to move forward to effect the change that has to happen.