Now that National Novel Writing Month is over and I can breathe again (I squeaked out a narrow win) I am slowly starting to swap First We Dream over to a more anything goes place, as I mentioned in my “Hiatus” post. Just can’t get enough eyeballs, so I’m reducing effort and just going to let it flow on here without trying to be a primary visit site.
So during December, at least for a while, things will be changing and a mess (and no entries) until I find and tweak a new theme to my satisfaction.
Just wanted to give anyone wandering by a heads up!
Jaym
After a few months of working several hours a day on content, I’ve been analyzing my analytics and only getting ten or so readers a day (some not really reading), so I’m locking down for the moment to prepare for NaNoWriMo next month- hard enough to write a novel in one month, let alone come up with thoughtful discussions and do the related artwork, etc. to go with it.
I understand that the popular trend on the internet is to have a blog of no interest, with horrible grammar, and no posts longer than two sentences. I shall never do such a thing, so my blogs- particularly my posts meant to inspire discussion and conversation, are apparently above the heads (and past the goldfish-attention spans) of most blog readers.
I am working on my outline for NaNoWriMo next month, and then will be writing to get those 50,000 words done within November.
Afterward, I’ll be re-examining the blog situation, but I’m coming to the conclusion that as with most things in life, I just don’t fit in to the societal norms. Since I wasn’t one of the first bloggers around, and since I don’t have a built-in audience (as a celebrity, for instance) I have learned there’s no way to draw eyes to your writing. It is NOT about quality content- it’s about having money, and being able to pay the bucks for advertising to spam the hell out of the internet.
I may relaunch in December, I may rework to a new theme, or I may convert the blog to a personal space or, since the lies and attacks from the political right continue unabated, I may turn it into a political fact-site.
For those who’ve visited and enjoyed anything, thanks, I appreciate your visit(s).
Jaym
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Unknown
Time is always marching forward, making it easy to get caught up in our day-to-day lives. We allow it to blur ahead, ever faster. How many times have you become been shocked upon realizing how “extra” fast time has seemingly passed in a particular week, month or year? It seems when we focus on time, it moves fast- when we ignore it, it only moves faster.
This makes planning our lives in an orderly fashion something of a hit-or-miss proposition. The majority of us grow up having a “generic societal-norm” plan in place shared by many in our society. Something akin to the following:
High school graduation ► College (or work) ► Work ► Get married by 30 ► Have 2.5 kids by 35 ► Retire at 62 ► Die an old, loved and happy person with a family, who has made a lasting impact on the world.
What can we do when our lives break away from this formula for “success”? It can be a very daunting thing to consider, and can make one feel like a failure in comparison to the rest of society. Wisdom would indicate that you don’t need to follow any set path in life to have a good, happy or successful one: but how can you cope with the reality of your life when the path you imagined following is nowhere in sight?
Personally, I always imagined the above scenario- never figured I’d follow any other route. I personally have always felt if I fail to have at least one child, I will have been a “failure” in life- after all, if I’m not passing on my DNA (and since I’m not curing cancer) then nothing I do will make an impact on the world- very soon after my death, perhaps five years, it will be as if I never existed.
Certainly not everyone feels this way- many do not wish to have children of their own for various reasons. I envy the people who are capable of embracing whatever life has handed them- especially when it’s a solitary existence- and still feel proud of what they’ve done.
I feel a great burden of time upon myself. My current situation finds me lengthily unemployed, while living in my mother’s basement due to incurable anxiety disorder. I’m stuck in my situation due to the lack of full, quality, no-cost options under our current politically designed health system. I’m stuck in a life-quagmire, where I see the years slipping by before all too soon it will be too late for me to have my chance at the vision of what I wanted my life to be. While I am a male, it’s still not too often than you begin to have kids after 40, and since I am attracted to younger women, it is insanely difficult to find a 26 year old who is going to be interested in having a relationship once they hear your age begins with a four. Looking closer to women around my age is folly in most instances- we don’t share interests, and the majority are divorced and already have kids of their own. I do not wish to enter into a relationship with someone that has experienced it all before, and has angry-ex-boyfriends to deal with… but most of all I do not want to be a step-father. I have an internal necessity to have my own children.
This means I only have a touch over two years to A.) find someone much younger than me who is interested in a relationship, B.) spend time “alone” with her to make sure we’re in love, C.) live together- so we know that we are compatible in a household, D.) get married, E.) spend an initial married timeframe together to enjoy our newlywed status and be able to do things together without other concerns, and… F.) finally, have kids.
That’s a lot to fit into two years, considering I would imagine getting to know each other, living together and enjoying our recent marriage would each take at least six months- already putting this out of the timeframe. Certainly there are other variables- if all of my wildest dreams come true, I’ll find a younger woman, who will have more time left on her life clock before there’s a danger of being unable to have children. I’m hardly of the sort that requires marriage prior to having kids- the above idea is a “best situation” listing, as it were. But still, even considering these variables, I can feel the weight of my age bearing down on me- but in my world, since I consider children of my own so important, the weight bearing down on me feels more like a guillotine instead of an hourglass.
The worst aspect of all is being unable to break through my current life difficulties- mostly solving my professional dilemma and being able to get back to my own on-my-own adult life that was so rudely torn away from me by others. Overcoming these tribulations is monumental when having to accommodate the anxiety I will suffer with my entire life (miraculous scientific breakthrough notwithstanding). Not only do I need to find work I love, but work I can do, that will allow me to stay healthy and fit my unique work ennvironment requirements while trying to move forward with my life.
All I know is, it’s highly depressing when I encounter one of those “this is a special woman in front of me” situations, and I can’t even start to consider asking her out- what slim, attractive, intelligent woman in her right mind is going to agree to date an overweight, out of work, anxiety ridden goofball stuck in his mom’s basement? It’s a ridiculed cliche (even though I don’t fit the truth of that cliche- I was a successful young professional prior to having others take it all away.) No, I can’t envision the young woman that would feel that none of these things matter and do anything more than either laugh at me, or pity me.
It’s also highly depressing considering the losses already suffered. Due to working seven days a week year round for eight years, I missed countless relationships during my entire twenties. Following that period of overworking, I became unemployed and broke, with no means to meet anyone or date- so I’ve spent the first seven-plus years of my thirties without relationships. It’s further depressing to know that as I near 40 and 50- the cut off age for sex (at least for me… I have no interest in sex with saggy body parts, wrinkled skin, etc.: After your mid-50’s at best (unless you’re a superstar celebrity that’s defied nature)- the concept of sex beyond that age is disgusting).
Knowing I let others in society dictate the fact that I missed out on the single most important human experience- shared sexual bliss- having only a few scared and uninterested partners… it weighs on me, having missed out on the years we are intended to be having sex- as sex is for the young. Sex is for those 14 to 50, not those winding down their lives after that point. Knowing that sex will be something you don’t get to experience in your life in any serious form takes away a part of your spirit, making it hard to have any interest in fighting through the lonely days- without having the hope of sexual contact with another you love, there’s really nothing to look forward to in life of consequence.
Welcome to Part II of this First We Dream “Dream 10″ Guide on how to elegantly fit what you’re trying to say into those scant few 140 characters in Twitter! If you skipped Part I, it’s vital you start there, so you understand the first five tips before proceeding.
Otherwise, let’s move on to tip 6, next page!
If you’re a member of the A.D.D. generations- or a President of the “Death to the English Language” club, and are a regular on the best social media site out there- Twitter- you probably don’t care how unreadable your Tweet is when you jam your commentary into 140 characters. You’re making up words, abbreviating everything into forms that word has never been abbreviated into in the history of mankind, replacing every you and two with “U and 2″ (it’s only cool when Prince does it!). You’re struggling to jam what you want to say into a limited space- and in the process you’re often losing your point while simultaenously confusing anyone reading your Tweets into a heaping pile of “what the hell did that mean?”
Fear not: I present the First We Dream “Dream 10″ Guide of ways to help you fit your Tweets into 140 characters, be able to speak in proper English (with some obviously necessary exceptions), and make sense at the same time (well, depending on content- that remains up to you.)
Important Note:
Keep in mind one important Tweet-size rule though: You can jam a Tweet in at exactly 140 characters, but MOST Tweets (unless you only stick to your few followers) will need one to four hashtag (#) channel labels that count towards the 140 characters. You have to learn to write clean, but short so you have room for those hashtags, and for other people to RT (re-Tweet) your witty statement with your Twittertag included in that 140 limit.
Tip one, next page!
There’s an amazing thing that happens in the United States currently to all young women. As the clock strikes midnight on their 18th birthday, magic glyphs and symbols float in the air, a rainbow swirls over their heads, and drastic, incredible changes occur to their minds and bodies. When the magical procession is complete, each woman- a single minute ago just a girl, is now ready to have sex, legally!
Yes, the magic of the number eighteen.
Of course, the logical mind is aware that nothing whatsoever changes at eighteen. A woman the day before at seventeen is the same woman the next day at eighteen. Yet, if a man has sex with her the day before that birthday, he’s some kind of “child abuser” and out to ruin society, and should be locked up for twenty years, as if he ended a life. It’s a highly flawed way to look at the matter, and uses absolutely no wisdom in its consideration.
Where exactly, did we come to the point where sex and love not only take a backseat in acceptability to violence, but are so far back in our acceptance, that we started arbitrarily assigning a random number of no relevance to allow it? Who made the decision that the “magic” would occur at eighteen? Did everyone in the nation vote? Was a crop-circle made in a large field somewhere in a large “18″ pattern? No, simply a few conservative politicians- likely with prudish attitudes towards sex, or with their own young daughters- thought assigning an old(er) age would suffice to keep their precious girls from being near a boy in such a “naughty” manner. Likely also influenced by those Christians within the religious realm that force their views upon others, where it is unacceptable to have sex before marriage (always an unwise choice) and the combined pressures were likely to assure the arbitrary age was going to be set high. Look at Sarah Palin’s hypocritical stance on teen sex within her own family.
Well, the conservative plan backfired.
The lack of wisdom in assigning an arbitrary age number to sex is apparent to the open minded. Times change, and girls- women- are changing as well. The younger generations, while still facing the traditional trials of adolescence, do have advantages no generation has had before. They are growing up faster, sharper and more aware at younger ages than ever before. Life is in the fast lane, and it’s only going to get faster.
Have you ever met some young teenage women recently? Not only can you not tell physically what their age is in many instances, there are some very intelligent ones that are highly mature and aware of their role in the world. I have seen/met several 14 year old “girls” more mature than some 35 year old “women” I’ve encountered. Should those 35 year old women not be allowed to have sex? Or perhaps someone seeking to have sex with those particularly immature 35 year old women should be arrested for child abuse? That’s how the flawed logic currently in use would reach its logical conclusion, after all.
Sex, a natural aspect of our humanity, is shunned as a “bad thing” by the conservatives amongst us, while simultaneously pushing forward dangerous gun ownership rights by pointing to flawed statistics that cause deaths. Instead of approaching the situation from that of a closed mind, “all teenagers are incapable of handling the emotional aspects of sex”, instead one should consider the truth of the matter and- once you have all the facts- arrive at a more appropriate course of action: each woman should be judged on an individual level as to her readiness to engage in sexual activities. It is quite easy to tell if a woman is physically mature- if she isn’t, it is not acceptable to be having sex with her. If she is physically mature, then you must establish if she is mentally mature- look as Miley Cyrus, the pop starlet. I dare anyone to tell me she’s mature enough to be a multi-millionaire, with the presence of mind to work in the grueling world of a world-wide celebrity, but yet incapable of dealing with sex. That would be a bald-faced lie. Consider Emma Watson, from the Harry Potter movies. When she was 16 (a few years back)- she was fully matured and again, a full-fledged movie star with more responsibility than most adults have, as well as being a multi-millionaire. Again, somehow sex would be abusing her? She has a strong enough and mature enough mindset to perform work most adults over 40 couldn’t handle, yet she’d somehow melt into a pile of goo if she had sex with an “adult” over 18?
Girls are having sex now, in a majority percentage, well before eighteen. Making an arbitrary age a cutoff doesn’t slow down the activity from happening, it’s not a deterrent in any way… all that is accomplished is women grow up with a stigma attached to sex- the memory that sex is not good, and I shouldn’t be doing it. They are losing out on highly valuable lessons that would be of far more benefit to a young woman… proper birth control techniques, pride in their body/how they look, not being afraid or ashamed of nudity as so many adult women are, safe sex routines, and other important health issues (like breast cancer screening or the health benefits of masturbation).
So how else to handle the situation besides making an arbitrary age to have legal sex, especially with older men? The way it should be handled, through physical and mental maturity. There are countless thirteen year olds out there who are physically developed and mentally ready for the responsibilities of sexual activity. In years past, women used to be married off at fourteen and start families! It wasn’t considered odd at all- in fact it was common practice- for middle aged men to marry teenage women, giving them maximum time to raise a family. Critics point to the current life expectancy being older as an excuse. However, with our non-stop work driven society, it is insanely easy for someone to work their way through school, dive into non-stop work, and find themselves in their late thirties- at a cutoff age for ever finding a relationship or having a family. Sexual activity greatly diminishes after 40, and is much less pleasurable (who wants sex with droopy, saggy, wrinkly body parts compared to the tight, smooth, fit bodies of youth?) Why then, are we going backwards in our mindset? Should we not, as a society, be constantly progressing forwards, rather than backwards?
Everyone has their own favorite entertainment products, and there are countless top five or top ten lists to find everywhere online. Sounds like a great idea- but I’m not satisfied with silly lists that leave any room open for debate. No, I want something monumental- something that chisels the point in concrete, and records it for all time as a fact of existence!
Therefore I present to you… First We Dream’s Ultimate Entertainment List!
Let’s start next page!
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
~Mark Twain
As a Druid, I am a master student of wisdom. What is meant by “wisdom”? What exactly is the difference in information coming from one’s intellect as opposed to insight offered through obtained wisdom? Let’s take a closer look at what exactly we’re dealing with in regards to wisdom- so we can all gain a bit of intellect in the process.
Everyone is used to judging or hearing about people’s intellect, especially their “IQ” (Intelligence Quotient). Skim through any online message board, and every argument will eventually have someone pointing out their (extremely unlikely) IQ of 189. The IQ judges “book smarts”, combined with one’s ability to perform well in test taking (normally under the added pressure of time-constraint), tapping into skills in spacial comprehension, logic, math and other such brain teasers.
Measuring one’s IQ is a truly difficult task- the most common way, the IQ test, is flawed as a concept (as are all tests) as it doesn’t take into account the very separate issue of one’s ability to take tests. Some people truly know the answers, but simply have a personal difficulty in test-taking. A common situation arises where intelligence is set aside and instead the psychology of second-guessing and doubt comes into play, which does not hold any relevance to one’s IQ. (I have a personal average of missing about five to ten questions per test (based on length) from double guessing- despite knowing the answer. The psychological ability to talk oneself out of sticking to what they believe is the correct answer is overwhelming for some people.) The best way to bypass this situation is to take multiple untimed IQ tests that use highly similar or identical scoring mechanisms and find an adjusted average- for example, about 10 points higher than the average of three untimed IQ tests.
Of course, another problem with IQ tests is inherent in scoring the tests fairly. For instance- one “IQ” test asked how many sides a stop sign has. The provided answer was “eight”. However, that is incorrect. A stop sign has ten sides- the eight edges, and the front and back. A stop sign is a three-dimensional object, after all. For the test to be correct in stating “eight” as the answer, the question would need to be phrased as “How many sides does a two-dimensional representation of a stop sign have?”
Another issue is cultural. Some IQ tests have asked villagers in third world countries to organize food items into like groups. Instead of organizing them based on vegetable, fruit, and so on, the villagers organized them based on how you ate them- these require the outside to be removed, these can be eaten as is, etc. Is it fair to proclaim someone has a low IQ because they don’t consider the answer in the same worldview as the question writer? Of course not. Both are valid answers, yet most IQ tests don’t allow for such leeway in creative answers.
So you determine through some form of testing you’ve got an IQ of 121. You’re smart, right? Well, the average IQ is normally considered to be 100. If you fall in the approximate range of 132-135, you’re a possible Mensa candidate! 170 to 200? You’re one of the smartest people to ever live. (Next time someone online tells you they have an IQ approaching 200 , feel free to call their bluff. Unless you’re in an IM session with Steven Hawking, they are full of it! IQ is normally not tracked beyond 200- and few people in history have been beyond that level.)
So, with your 121 IQ, you must indeed be a very wise person, no?
Not necessarily. In fact, your IQ has very little direct tie to your level of wisdom. It plays a part, but a small one.
Wisdom is not a measurable concept. It can become evident in hearing someone speak, reading the words they’ve written or in seeing a particular course of action they have taken. Wisdom is a highly generalized concept in comparison to IQ. It is a combination of common sense, logic, gut feeling, mental focus, meditative contemplation, experience, age and a dash of intellect.
Where does wisdom come from then? Is it something that can be learned? Against popular stereotypes, it can be, in some cases. There is a difference between learning information (becoming smarter) and gaining wisdom (becoming wiser). Just because one has learned something, does not mean they are any wiser. Wisdom occurs when the learning that has occurred is applied to the world around us, and allows us to arrive at the core substance of matters. It is a philosophical approach of embracing a topic and seeing it from all sides and eliminating the detritus surrounding the idea.
So is all wisdom obtained through study or actively seeking to become wiser?
No, some wisdom comes from experience- and some experience only comes from action, while other experience comes from age. A very large percentage of the time, the older someone is, the wiser they are. This is why one should keep in mind that one should “respect their elders”- as they often have more insight than someone younger. And “elder” does not equate to “elderly”. Someone in their late thirties is more often than not wiser than someone in their late twenties.
It is possible, however, for one who focuses on the art of being wise- seeking to gain wisdom wherever it may be gleaned- to be wiser than their elders. Therefore age is a factor, but not a guaranteed factor. Why does age matter? Wisdom is a process- it requires patience, time, reflection, meditation and open-mindedness. Wisdom cannot be rushed- in fact, attempting to do so often results in the least amount of wisdom being applied to the matter at hand.
Politics, as with the majority of all topics one can consider, is also a source of imagination and creativity. However, under current conditions, we’re facing a situation where the truth and facts all lie with the Democrats and Progressives, and the Warpublican party is in full-out-attack mode, using as much spin – the more imaginary and creative the better- to confuse the less informed within our society so that they can defeat healthcare reform, and ensure that millions of their fellow American citizens, myself included, will die up to 50 years before we normally would.
Obviously this is unacceptable, and the lies cannot be tolerated any longer, as this is honestly a life-and-death situation for millions of American citizens. This post will continue to update over time as I gather all of the *facts* that shatter the imaginary spin on healthcare, President Obama, and other nonsense, over time as I gather the facts in one location in order to set the record straight.
Let me make this clear right now: Free speech does NOT apply on my site. If you leave a comment that perpetuates right-wing spin and lies, it will be either A.) deleted or B.) modified to say whatever I want it to say- if you post a comment here, it is MY property, not yours. Think before you challenge these facts.
Civil, intelligent disagreement is allowed, though I can’t fathom what facts you could have on your side (since all the facts favor the immediate, desperate need of health care reform and otherwise defend the Democratic party as the only party actually doing GOOD for the nation, instead of causing the irreparable harm the Warpublican party is currently engaging in. Thanks to the Warpublicans and George W. Bush, our nation is permanently divided.)
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The Warpublicans scream about wanting their liberties back, and yet can’t name one liberty that’s been taken away. Then they (falsely) claim Obama is ruining the country.
Odd, when the facts show the contrary to be the truth:
What’s Obama done for us in his *7* months in office? Oh..well, er… beyond that, I mean.
Our nation is LEFT of CENTER = Democratic / Liberal majority. Period.
Debt? What CAUSED the budget deficit?
Bush didn’t spend? Late 2008, Pre-Obama, After a Clinton SURPLUS…
Warpublican tax cuts are the end-all be all, right? Horribly, horribly wrong.
Truth on which party is the “good” party…
Who’s responsible for the mortgage crisis? Bush.
Socialism? Odd it wasn’t before…
Which party has less deficits (or the only surplus)?
Separation of Church and State?
Everyone can get healthcare under our current system? Not even close.
Canadian Healthcare- From Canadians
The hypocrisy of opposition to the President from both parties for the current and former President.
And, to explain the reasoning behind ignoring these truths…
Why the deluded cling to lies despite facts…
But you know what, by all means, let’s hasten our nation’s demise, continue down wrong path with Palin in 2012. Palin- someone less intelligent than BOTH George W. Bush- the worst President ever, as already recorded in our nation’s history- and Dan Quayle, who couldn’t spell “potato”. Dumber than both, combined. Someone who is so religiously brainwashed, she would willingly start a nuclear war if she read signs that it was the “end times” and it was time to help “start Revelations”- even though WE ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION.
Right-wing Religious Bible-Thumpers: “America is a Christian nation!”
Truth: We have no state religion. If we were a Christian nation, it would be illegal to be anything but Christian. Millions would be in prison for religious persecution.
Right-wing Religious Bible-Thumper Response to this: “So you don’t know history- our founding fathers based our nation on Christian values!”
Truth: Of course, you idiot. What possible OTHER religion would the Brtish ex-pats have had? Islam? Laughable. Perhaps they could be Druids? Uh, paganism was frowned upon and the Christian church attempted to destroy the Druids (and did a mostly thorough job in eliminating the wisest men to walk the planet. Way to go, Christian church!) What POSSIBLE other religion could they have used to base our nation’s principles on?
If America was being founded today, it would not be founded on Christian principles- it would be founded on a far more all-encompassing brush of inclusion of all religions, as we are intended to be, despite the Christians continually trying to force their religion upon others.
If a Warpublican is elected in 2012 or 2016, America will fall like Rome- China, Russia, India and Japan will be the dominant nations, and we will be a struggling nation that is an afterthough in human history.
Only the Democrats can save us, as history has proven time and time again, as backed up by the facts.
“However, I think we’re going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don’t think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the Sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the terms of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.”
~ President John F. Kennedy
In the 60’s, President Kennedy gave a speech explaining why we were going to the moon- the nation embraced the challenge, and through all the trials and tribulations, we stuck together as a whole nation and achieved the “impossible”- to land men on the moon. In doing so, not only did we establish space superiority decades beyond other nations, but we also have gained countless technological advances from the space program (we still reap benefits from NASA on a constant basis today), we also have gained a much greater understanding of the universe from our efforts. The only negatives from our pursuit of such an “impossibile” goal? The loss of lives- easily the highest cost- yet lives that were willing of their own accord to take such risks, and the costs involved. Yet when those costs are measured against the gains, they are eliminated.
We succeeded and did so magnificently. We set a goal beyond our expectations, aimed for the moon, and achieved everything we set out to do.
Why is it then, that 40 years later, our nation is now the nation of “that’s impossibile”?
Our nation is a very different nation than it was back then. After the President George W. Bush’s two-term presidency, through his political actions and approach to governing our nation, a permanent wedge has been split down the center of our nation. Never again will our nation be truly United- we are forever split into warring sides on the left and right side of the political spectrum that see the world in highly different ways: The right sees the world in black and white, and the left in more realistic shades of grey. The right is the self-proclaimed party of “fiscal responsibility” yet always has the highest deficits on record. The left is accused of creating the financial crisis we currently face, though the record again shows the right to be responsible.
One of the greatest threats facing the entire world currently is the very real threat of Global Warming (or Global Climate Change). Again, the right calls this a “hoax”, despite mind-staggering evidence to the contrary. It makes one wonder how someone on the right can be presented the facts and still cling to the lies they held before. Though there is a psychological answer to this quandry. The left has been pushing hard to move our nation towards a “green” nation, yet the right is stonewalling every attempt protesting the “costs” and the fact that it is “impossibile” to turn our nation from an fossil-fuel reliant nation to a clean energy nation.
Odd, that 40 years after achieving the impossibile, and saying “screw the costs, we’ll gain far more in the end”, the right suddenly feels that the much easier task of developing clean energies- in comparison to travelling to the moon- is “impossible”. Why is there suddenly an obsession over costs, when their own party is the party that drives us into debt the deepest?
There is a fact in life- if you wish to make money, you must spend money. There is no way to get money without first spending some. Yet the right believes the only solution to make money is to provide tax cuts- ignoring the amazingly obvious concept that those who have no taxable income are left entirely out of the loop- and this number is currently staggering, with so many people far beyond immediate unemployment.
What will it take to get those on the right to break out of this mindset and join the rest of the nation in striving to achieve the “impossible” yet again? If we were faced with the climate issue in the 60’s, our nation would have definitively developed a new energy source that was environmentally safe. We’d have led the world into a new era.
Now we sit back, proclaim it impossibile, and wait for someone else in the world to step into our role. China? India? It’s only a matter of time.
We can achieve ANYTHING we set our minds to- creation of a new type of energy source, men landing on Mars, anything we set our minds to as a whole.
Unfortunately, until the right rejoins the rest of the majority (our nation is left of center as a whole) and opens their minds again- breaking free of the propaganda they’ve fallen prey to, the U.S. spirit of creativity is dead and buried, and we will continue to quickly lose our leading status in the world, as we already have in so many areas.
It’s unfortunate, too. The left can’t do everything for us, as always seems to be the case. If we were a whole nation once more, if the right wing would regain some semblance of sanity and rejoin us here on Planet Earth, we could again achieve anything we set out to do- even the “impossible”.
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