Hope and Change?
The Beginning of the Obama Era.
A campaign of Hope and Change. Hmm. I'll admit, I have not been at all a fan of the previous 8 years of administration. I am with many people when I say Mr. Bush stole the second term, was a war-monger, and created a political environment that now has accepted the compromise of some very basic American freedoms, like privacy and culture. We live in a modern police state that only needs to beat people down in the most extreme cases...the rest of the time, the people are kept in check by a media crusade of fear. Just try to step out of the mold, it isn't even the police that "correct" you, it's your brain-washed friends and families.
On the other hand, consider this: If our modern age were to utterly fail...I mean, first economy, then internal corruption, then military coops, then attacked by China...if our little U.S.A. experiment were to come to term, as the greatest empires and civilizations in history all HAVE (Greek, Chinese, Mayan, etc)...consider your belly-aching, protesting, and complaining all in that scope. All of our modern achievements could quite easily become dust, just as the knowledge of Alexandria was burned, just as the astronomy of the Incas was lost, just as Atlantis is a legend.
Eventually, as humanity would recover from that Dark Age, children would be taught, "Ooo, once upon a time, back around 2000, people were very advanced -- they could travel faster than the wind. Individuals could communicate around the world using complicated light-emanating matrixes of crystals! They could control their aging process! They built machines to do most of their labor! They could heal most sicknesses! Etc." You get my drift.
I certainly encourage people to fight for what is right, and what is good. But I also hope and I pray that we give thanks for all that we have today, AS IS.
A campaign of Hope and Change. Hmm. I'll admit, I have not been at all a fan of the previous 8 years of administration. I am with many people when I say Mr. Bush stole the second term, was a war-monger, and created a political environment that now has accepted the compromise of some very basic American freedoms, like privacy and culture. We live in a modern police state that only needs to beat people down in the most extreme cases...the rest of the time, the people are kept in check by a media crusade of fear. Just try to step out of the mold, it isn't even the police that "correct" you, it's your brain-washed friends and families.
On the other hand, consider this: If our modern age were to utterly fail...I mean, first economy, then internal corruption, then military coops, then attacked by China...if our little U.S.A. experiment were to come to term, as the greatest empires and civilizations in history all HAVE (Greek, Chinese, Mayan, etc)...consider your belly-aching, protesting, and complaining all in that scope. All of our modern achievements could quite easily become dust, just as the knowledge of Alexandria was burned, just as the astronomy of the Incas was lost, just as Atlantis is a legend.
Eventually, as humanity would recover from that Dark Age, children would be taught, "Ooo, once upon a time, back around 2000, people were very advanced -- they could travel faster than the wind. Individuals could communicate around the world using complicated light-emanating matrixes of crystals! They could control their aging process! They built machines to do most of their labor! They could heal most sicknesses! Etc." You get my drift.
I certainly encourage people to fight for what is right, and what is good. But I also hope and I pray that we give thanks for all that we have today, AS IS.
posted by Just Greg at Friday, November 07, 2008
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