Today’s policies are all about words, about labels, and especially about intimidation. Logic is useful in debate – but there’s no debate: questions are met with silence – leaving the questioner as an isolated target.
In an Adolescent Society; nothing is more important than conforming – and no one wants to risk the consequences of adulthood.
I’ll take care of the dog, I’ll fix global warming . . . “Somebody had better do something!”
Some people claim that the only use of history; is to learn from it — and if you suppress it, even a part of it: you are liable to make the same mistakes over and over.
This is why there is so much scurrying in the background of academia – history is being erased and rewritten to conform to an overarching Doctrine — in every history book; and everywhere.
This is why old people no longer portrayed as a source of history: If they told what they have experienced — young people might believe them.
One Thought – One Taught – One Voice – One Choice — at any cost.
Looking at compassion quotes; they all have one thing in common; they are not conditional: they use words like “all,” “everyone,” “our,” “together.”
Compassion does not see race, gender, or perceived worth.
All our government and institutional policies have one thing in common — they lack compassion.
What’s “new” about it? The Pandemic brought out all the profiteering and prevaricating of every other war, famine and natural disaster. Business as usual.
Spinning old sins around under a COVID shell is a game for taking in fools.
Lenses limit our field of view and magnify what we choose to look at. [No quibbling about types and properties of lenses to avoid dealing with the merits of the issue.]
In the Edgar Alan Poe story “The Sphinx” – a distant “monster” seen through the window; turns out to be an insect crawling upon a spider thread, along the window-sash. The “lens” in this case; is the Cholera epidemic that pervades the author’s thoughts.
“Lenses” built of fear and ignorance; can make a monster of anyone.
Since government abuses and abrogates our rights already; maybe they can ratify something useful for a change. Current DNA collection laws disproportionately target the societal challenged — it’s time for a more equitable solution. Support “DNA is the way ™” – it’s Scientific: Believe It!
From the Federal definition of a gang: An association of three or more individuals whose members collectively identify themselves by adopting a group identity, and whose purpose in part is to engage in criminal activity.
The association may also possess some of the following characteristics: 1. The members may employ rules for joining and operating within the association. 2. The members may meet on a recurring basis. 3. The association may seek to exercise control over a particular geographic location or region. 4. The association may have an identifiable structure.
What’s not clear about the phrase: “Out of control” — and how long will it be before politicians take the easy way out?
Our government uses every opportunity to grasp more power – and pretexts are their most effective tool for achieving that goal. At the center of every solution is the opportunity acquire greater power: the power to decide and control everything and everyone.
Do you think this power will be used to help you? — Power does not work like that.
Our government has no ethics; and no legitimacy. It persuades by its arguments; not by its acts.
There was a vacant lot in the neighborhood. One day a pile of discarded trash was noticed by the people living around it. Soon, it began to be filled with trash.
You could say that’s human nature — or you could say that’s our government.