"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. "
Thomas Paine

Thursday, July 17, 2014

#Wholesomness


        Back before America became homogeneous and political correct there was a wholesomeness to America.  Now I'm not saying that somebody should be treated any different than anybody else and I certainly am not prejudice in any way. On the other hand you have to admit that before all the upheaval of the 60's there was a wholesomeness that we have lost in all our political correctness and trying to make everything the same and I will say that I was part of that upheaval.
    I see families sitting at the dinner table, kids on their mobile devices, no real conversation going on. Even adults gathered in social places most are constantly checking their phones and emails. No real thought provoking conversation going on. Try this; play a game where every one puts their phone on the table and the first one to pick theirs up has to buy the round.
    Back before we could buy asparagus from Argentina in February obesity and cancer were not the scourge of the nation.  Back before all this mass communication people were friendlier. We are connected to more people but don't know the people living next door to us. We, as a people have made tremendous leaps and bounds with our technology, but as a community, as a society we have become much less. Our medicine is supposedly better but our food is poising us. Our food is prepackaged and "quick cook" for ease and convenience but it is filled with additives that is slowly killing us. The kitchen and the dinner table used to be a place to catch up on things,"check the health of the family". You knew your neighbors and your neighbors knew you. There was someone at home who was the anchor. It doesn't have to be a woman like it was back then. I believe that anybody who can do the same job as me should certainly not be treated any different than me because of race or gender but lets face it America as a society, even with all its inequalities was a better place. Turns out that "Mom" at home was part of the glue that held us together as a society and that my friends is a pretty important job although its true the pay is dismal.
     Look at what we have now; Now we have 200,000,000 kids, that's 200 million on some sort of mood altering drugs like "Ritalin".  If there are both parents in the same house hold, both of them work. No one knows what anybody is doing unless the see it on "Twitter" or "Face Book". There is much to-do about guns but there are more gun laws now than in the 50's and just as many guns. Our problems go much deeper then guns! I would like to know how many of these kids who are doing these killings around the country are from one parent homes and how many are on some sort of pharmaceutical drug????
    We have lost so much as a society in the last 50 years but it goes much deeper then that!
     We have become arrogant in our use of the earths resources and in our technological arrogance we think we can control nature and even life itself. As a species we are steamrolling out of the natural order of things, out of our place in the natural world and it will be our destruction as a society and a species and we have done it to our selves.

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