Isn't that all that a blog really is? Think about it for a moment. The internet has given everyone the power to be able to voice their opinion regardless of any other factors. Even I am guilty of this. When we are around other people, we tend to watch what we say, and how we say it. (Yes, I have done this, I usually don't, but in my more recent years I have learned the art of tact.) We do this because most people do not appreciate the truth, or actually being fully honest. It has been so ingrained into our society that we have started to reward everyone for nothing. A trophy just for being a participant in an event. Graduation from Elementary School. Some schools have gone so far as to not award letter grades, but an alternate system, because letter grades can be demoralizing to the kids.
What? Give me a break. This kind of behavior has already hurt our country. Our government is afraid to offend ANYONE. So as a result we appear weak to the rest of the world. Our kids are growing up expecting that they should be rewarded for anything and everything. And that they "need" to have whatever they want, and now. I hope I have raised my kids to act responsibly, but it has been so damn hard with the way the schools are. You teach the kids that the have a right to defend themselves from bullies, or just defend themselves in general. But when they actually have to do it, the school will punish them right along with the kid that actually started it. Oh, and if you think that if the kid just sits there and takes the beating, hoping the whole time someone would stop it, that they wouldn't be punished by the school, think again. The still get the same punishment because they were in a fight. Does that make any sense? No!
So, we are becoming a society of apologizers. Afraid to offend anyone even in the slightest. And those of us that are unafraid to speak our mind, and the truth, are seen as malcontents. Or are accused of not caring about someones feelings. (Well, in my case that is true. If I don't know you, I ain't got the time to care about you in the slightest.) You can't be all 'touchy-feely' with people. Want to know why? THEY WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU! Maybe not directly, but it will happen. Why is it wrong for me to use the word "nigger" when black people use it among themselves all the time? (Personally, I revile the term whenever ANYONE uses it.) Equal rights means equal in everything, right? And by the way, my family didn't get to this country until the 1930s from England. And as a result, I have no ancestors that ever owned slaves. Why does my family have to share the blame for that?
We, as a country, need to man up and, pardon the term, grab our balls so we can take care of what is going to destroy us. Namely our fear of offending others and what the world's opinion of us is. We need to start taking care of our own and stop giving billions of dollars to nations that hate us. Pakistan is a prime example, the nations populace considers the United States an enemy, yet our oh so enlightened government gives them billions of dollars a year, basically supporting their economy. Um, hello, what do you think we could do in this country with just Pakistan's share of our international aid? I hesitate to think about it, it'll just get me pissed off, and this has been such a calm entry for me. Then there are the countries that STILL owe us for the equipment we sold them during WWII. Almost 70 years ago. Its a shame really, we are the only real superpower on this planet, and we can't even get our "friends" to payback the money we loaned them. More's the pity.
Today's quote comes from Benjamin Disraeli. He was a British Politician in the late 1800s. "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth." Kind of fits today's entry, not the beginning, or the end, but somewhere around the middle of the blog. Yea, I know, I wander around topics like a drunk hooker with a broken high heel around a gravel parking lot. So sue me!
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