Posts Tagged ‘Fear’
We have nothing to fear but fear itself…
At some point, we must ask ourselves, is this the people we wish to be? Do we wish to cower in fear? Do we wish to allow the dangers of the world to dictate who we are and who we choose to become?
A flu pandemic is a frightening thing, and it is wise to take precautions and built up vaccines, and practice good hygiene, but at some point we must accept the risk. There are no guarantees and living in fear is cowardly and beneath us.
Oh wait, no it’s not.
University Of Illinois At Chicago Bans Graduation Handshakes As H1N1 Precaution
Chicago, IL (AHN) – Congratulatory handshakes, a tradition at most graduation ceremonies, might be the latest casualty of the H1N1 flu virus. The University of Illinois at Chicago took the first step during Wednesday night’s graduation of the Honors College-one of the school’s most challenging programs. There, during the graduation ceremonies the student’s received the usual diplomas without the customary handshake that traditionally accompanies it.
America is dead.
Expanded Americorps, Not Just for Volunteers Anymore.
I just read a scary opinion piece about some proposed legislation that put me in mind of Hitler’s youth… judging from the comments, I’m not the only one…
To begin with, the legislation threatens the voluntary nature of Americorps by calling for consideration of “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” It anticipates the possibility of requiring “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service – including elementary school students.
And the nightmare continues…
Can someone explain what’s going on to me?
I was reading two different articles this morning on this one site, and the more I put them together, the more I started to think they sum up my real thoughts about the direction of things.
The first article by Andrew Klavin said:
The second article, by Don Devine, concluded with:
It occured to me that first article’s assumption seems to be that the culture war is winnable, thus making the second articles’s question completely irrelevent. Right now, the bottom 50% of wage earners pay no taxes at all. They receive benefits and subsidies from the US Govt., and have a vested interest in not fixing things. Now, the Galt Effect will kick in now, most assuredly, and the really productive folks will go away, but still, whomever remains at the top, will have to pay for everyone else. That’s the ‘new system’ – and the system that will be even more encouraged by Obama’s latest budget shananigans.
I am just saying, I think we’re too far down the path and we’ll never be able to turn back the clock on self-reliance and individual rights, short of some sort of revolt. Too many of our children believe in ideas of fairness and equality that are antithetical to liberty. Not even the children, young adults, into their thirties now. There aren’t even any teachers left that can understand the concepts of conservativism, never mind teach them. It is all just ‘mean’ and ‘greedy’ and ‘selfish’ to them.
If there’s no one to teach the ideas and ideals, I don’t see how the culture war is even going on now. It’s over, this is just mop-up.
Bush set the socialism table for Obama, now Obama finishes the job. Maybe there’s some backlash in 2 years, but even still, there’s no political will to throw away tainted ideas like Social Security, Medicaire, and on and on. It seems like rearranging deck chairs to me.
I’m not really defeatest about it. I just think the best things I can hope for are:
a) a country to move to (Ireland maybe?)
b) slow enough progress that I’ll be dead before the tyranny kills anyone I love.
c) holding on to enough freedom to write and eek out a living
I am feeling that even that is under attack now. Why else would I start an anonymous site? I don’t want to lose my job or have my family threatened. Does that sound like freedom of speech to anyone?