A Nation at Sleep
Sleep is a definitive term for living but unable to have reasonable awareness of events around you.
As a nation we've slept as events and policy's have shaped a world that is self destructive in nature and has no directive quality in anybodys' or anythings' favor. It is a surreal situation to this writer in as much as I have memory of a very different time that would suggest that the simple values and math from that time would dictate that the world we have created cannot continue, yet we show no signs of awareness that we must either change or suffer the fate that all great governments and civilizations before us fell prey to.
The events that put us into our predicament are easily defined.
A nation weary from 35 years that saw us engaged in two world wars and then in the early fifties the Korean conflict was eager to lay back and live a different kind of life that was fresh and peaceful with technology that was exciting and even miraculous produced a generation that found ourselves in bountiful supply of assets that were seemingly inexhaustable and we were happy to take advantage of everything that liberal thinking could suggest.
We introduced ourselves to a welfare state that no society in history had even imagined, then gave welfare different names to make us feel better, and even respectable. As the entitlements grew we convinced ourselves that we had it coming or that it was the right thing to do, or in some cases, the only thing to do. The payoff for that is a large segment of population that either underproduces or doesn't produce at all and is an albatross to those who still choose to work.
We protected ourselves with health insurance plans sponsored by the workplace and the government provides health insurance for those who do not want to work, and the payoff for that is an endless supply of 'specialists' and very little health care and a bloated health industry that is insensitive to those who really need its' services, and complaints from virtually everyone who makes an income from the health industry that they don't make enough money and work too hard, all the while having little understanding or compassion for those flipping hamburgers or just struggling to survive.
We protected ourselves with endless and continuing legislation that has crippled the American entrepenuer and stifled the spirit of those who hunger to be independant in a controlled environment.
We protected ourselves against those who might do us harm to the point one must surmise the 'enemy', whomever that is, we aren't too sure of their identity, has perservered and we are no longer a free people and live with fear as a constant companion. The enemy, real or imagined, must be smiling.
We protected individual rights to the point that in 50 years we murdered untold millions of unborn through abortion and prevented the natural births of indefinable numbers through wholesale contraception. The payoff for that is a society that doesn't have the labor force from within to support itself, but begrudges the alien who comes to do the jobs that none of us will do.
We are quick to judge those who do not bow to us, but are happy to pay third rate thieves in the Middle East our future as a nation, as we sit on reserves large enough to meet our energy needs for generations, hamstrung by those in power who have no idea the struggle the working class is enduring by their blindness.
We must also take responsibility for allowing this to happen to us. While we have too long clung to political parties who lost their identity and direction and not active in an informed way in the voting booth, we also loved the cheapness of goods from other countries who systematically took over the shelves in our stores and closed the factories in our towns, we promoted it by declaring our love and respect for foreign automobiles telling ourselves the Jap cars would 'run forever' and standing in line to buy them and their clones while our own automobile factories have sunk to closure across the nation. We are quick to take comfort that foreign car manufacturers are building plants across America and hiring us back to work in them, albeit for a third of what Detroit paid its workers.
Possibly there may be a brighter outlook for us but it can only follow a collapse that we are unwilling to face or deal with, but will suffer whether we want to or not. Such is the world of Dumb Asses......................
As a nation we've slept as events and policy's have shaped a world that is self destructive in nature and has no directive quality in anybodys' or anythings' favor. It is a surreal situation to this writer in as much as I have memory of a very different time that would suggest that the simple values and math from that time would dictate that the world we have created cannot continue, yet we show no signs of awareness that we must either change or suffer the fate that all great governments and civilizations before us fell prey to.
The events that put us into our predicament are easily defined.
A nation weary from 35 years that saw us engaged in two world wars and then in the early fifties the Korean conflict was eager to lay back and live a different kind of life that was fresh and peaceful with technology that was exciting and even miraculous produced a generation that found ourselves in bountiful supply of assets that were seemingly inexhaustable and we were happy to take advantage of everything that liberal thinking could suggest.
We introduced ourselves to a welfare state that no society in history had even imagined, then gave welfare different names to make us feel better, and even respectable. As the entitlements grew we convinced ourselves that we had it coming or that it was the right thing to do, or in some cases, the only thing to do. The payoff for that is a large segment of population that either underproduces or doesn't produce at all and is an albatross to those who still choose to work.
We protected ourselves with health insurance plans sponsored by the workplace and the government provides health insurance for those who do not want to work, and the payoff for that is an endless supply of 'specialists' and very little health care and a bloated health industry that is insensitive to those who really need its' services, and complaints from virtually everyone who makes an income from the health industry that they don't make enough money and work too hard, all the while having little understanding or compassion for those flipping hamburgers or just struggling to survive.
We protected ourselves with endless and continuing legislation that has crippled the American entrepenuer and stifled the spirit of those who hunger to be independant in a controlled environment.
We protected ourselves against those who might do us harm to the point one must surmise the 'enemy', whomever that is, we aren't too sure of their identity, has perservered and we are no longer a free people and live with fear as a constant companion. The enemy, real or imagined, must be smiling.
We protected individual rights to the point that in 50 years we murdered untold millions of unborn through abortion and prevented the natural births of indefinable numbers through wholesale contraception. The payoff for that is a society that doesn't have the labor force from within to support itself, but begrudges the alien who comes to do the jobs that none of us will do.
We are quick to judge those who do not bow to us, but are happy to pay third rate thieves in the Middle East our future as a nation, as we sit on reserves large enough to meet our energy needs for generations, hamstrung by those in power who have no idea the struggle the working class is enduring by their blindness.
We must also take responsibility for allowing this to happen to us. While we have too long clung to political parties who lost their identity and direction and not active in an informed way in the voting booth, we also loved the cheapness of goods from other countries who systematically took over the shelves in our stores and closed the factories in our towns, we promoted it by declaring our love and respect for foreign automobiles telling ourselves the Jap cars would 'run forever' and standing in line to buy them and their clones while our own automobile factories have sunk to closure across the nation. We are quick to take comfort that foreign car manufacturers are building plants across America and hiring us back to work in them, albeit for a third of what Detroit paid its workers.
Possibly there may be a brighter outlook for us but it can only follow a collapse that we are unwilling to face or deal with, but will suffer whether we want to or not. Such is the world of Dumb Asses......................
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