The American Mythos

Most Americans seem to fall prey to the myth that things will get better when we get new people into office. As time progresses we have less competent people getting elected. The reason is the incompetence of voters. Partisan politics is destroying our nation, one side has a good idea the other side rejects it merely because it came from the other side. As I said we must realize that time will not make our country better, we cannot wait for better leadership and effective decisions to be made. We must do these things on our own. I press this into your minds as I repeat myself again, reject the myth, let us free ourselves from oppressive government, that can reject the tenets of habeus corpus, put us into needless wars, torture at will, lie to the people, take advantage of children, ignore the UN, and the government that rejects the basic tenets upon which were founded must be abolished. Freedom is not just the ability to vote, freedom is not just the government telling you, "You are free," freedom is the ability to live our lives how we wish, with the right that it will not be infringed upon by others.

Government and Freedom

Government. Thomas Jefferson believed that it should do very little in the day to day affairs of the people. The purpose of the government has always been to protect the very rights for which men have died for. Now it seems that our people are very willing to give up their rights for a little more security. Foolish whims that will endanger our way of life. Bush's policies are toppling the true ideas of the founding fathers, secular government that allows free enterprise and peoples rights and only steps in if either are threatened. The illegal "War on Terror" I put it in quotes as Bush has used scare tactics on the American peoples since his biggest failure before the war in Iraq and Katrina, 9/11, has placed the United States in immediate danger from the outside world, because if they didn't hate us before, they are surely angered by the fact that we defied the United Nations and were not punished. It is our duty as citizens to change this governement. I for one have had enough of the religious right, the conservatives, the liberals, and the extremists. At one point in history, our entire country fought off the British, one of the greatest armies in the world at the time, because we were fiercely loyal to this country. Now it seems that we have alienated our own people time and time again, enough that people now fear the government. It is time to band together again my brothers, my sisters, and my friends. Band together as Americans first, then join together again, united with the World, rather than against it.

Outrage

I watch events unfold about our world and see the anger directed towards anyone that does not think the exactly the same as everyone else, and I am outraged. Those with a critical mind and take everything given to them with a grain of salt, are accused of being anti-American and pro-terrorists. The very notion of disagreeing with what our government tells us is a concept that is very much American. But, what makes you think that out of all the countries that you were born in that this one is the one that is the best we can have. We are citizens of the world, and the earth is all we have.

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable. "~H.L. Mencken

Thus I have come to loathe the government that tells me I must, and I can't.We have no need for a paternal government, because we can and will take care of ourselves. There are people that will say "Look at society today with crime the way it is, how can we hope for no government?" To me that proves that the government is ineffective at solving anything, all they can figure out is how to gain the most money for themselves. Sure some politicians fight for the rights of the people. But again, who are they fighting against? The older brother, and father figure that believes that it is the one that has to take us by the hand and lead us out of danger. The concept of ruling over each other is outdated, we have grown up.

Children Are Our Future

What we do to our children, they will do to society ~ Church Sign
Now I read this on the way home from the mall the other day, and I thought to my self, if this is true then why are churches, temples, and mosques ruining it for the rest of us. In virtually every religion and note that I said virtually, not all, there is an abundance of violence, and atrocities in its very own holy books. Judaism and Christianity alone have several verses on how to kill people that speak out against Yahweh. We've all seen what the Koran inspires in fundamentalist extremists see Osama bin Laden. I understand that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are peaceful religions, yet it on a world stage I have yet to see it. Back to children. Look at the "fathers, brothers, and teachers" that our children grow up seeing. Fathers abandon their kids all the time from upper tier to lower tier society in every corner of the globe. Brothers, bully and demean, and teachers bias a childs mind. Forget the notions of children are the future, that is an impossibility. Children have the future that society places them in. At one time the American dream was to have a chance to do better, now all we have left is to be forced into a role we might not want to take. How do we fix it? Again change the system, fix this God-forsaken world through unity as a people, not through seperating ourselves from our fellow man in an elitist society.