So its been a little while and to tell the truth I don't consider myself a writer so its amazing I get on here at all.
Anyway, today I was watching a video posted by the youtube user Randomyoko and she was talking about Japan in World War II and how it was the U.S. that was the aggressor and the sneak attack was not really a sneak attack. Although I thought it was a good review of history and the fact that we knew pearl harbor was coming is for the most part common knowledge these days I found myself conflicted with her broad brushing Japan as a victim.
America to me is not a country its an idea. We did not have thousands of years of history that united a single race and cut clear lines between our enemies, America is what happened when men found that the constraints of a distant king were too abrasive. No one person can be born in this country and be a true patriot, it is a process that has to be learned over time. If we truly understand what made this nation we would understand that it takes effort to gain freedom. No person in this or any other nation is truly free, it takes work and understanding to to truly be free. We may say that America is free but what we really mean is that you have a better chance at freedom here than you do anywhere else on this planet.
I don't know how to put into words the way I feel when I hear people putting so little thought into criticizing America, I understand why you would be critical of Holly Wood, I understand why you would be critical of the wars that have been fought, and I even understand why you would be critical of a people that seem so proud of their ignorance, but when you are able to put words of criticism to those things without considering the founders of this nation and without an ability to see the potential the principals of America bring, I would suggest that you have not done your homework. Or rather if you have done your homework you have done it with an eye that only selects the parts that prove your preconceived agenda.
I don't want to force every person on this planet to love America and I don't even have a problem with people who are ready to look for problems but when you are claiming to know the truth, and you have not spent the time to to make your judgments, you are not doing service to the men who spent their lives trying to improve the world.
Too many people believe that it is only the passage of time and an increase in the understanding of men or in science that have made the world today a more civil place to live, but I believe that it was not just a coincidence that the birth of freedom coincides with the birth of the United States of America.
We need fewer people who are quick to criticize and more people who are ready to help, we need more lovers of freedom and more people who are looking to improve their world. The negativism that has spread across this world is not the material for a brighter future and the people of every nation could use their time better if they looked for the good in other nations rather than feeling better about the themselves by putting down America. I know that this country is a very easy target and at current a very popular target as well, shouldn't that be a clue as to its cheapness? I wish that more people would take a look at what built this nation and the principals that made it the love of foreigners like my my forefathers.
We have problems but we also have a very good foundation, try looking at what ideas built this nation and if you study the men who made those ideas into a nation you too may come to understand why I and other people in every nation love America.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Friday, August 23, 2013
Choose
What does freedom mean?
If you had to explain to someone what freedom is how would you start? would you tell them that freedom is the ability to make all the right decisions? Would you tell them how its the ability to have someone else not only show you whats right but also force your hand to make sure you had no choice but to do what is right?
Is it freedom when you are isolated from the consequences of your actions?
I don't know first hand what the rest of the people in this world have lived or experienced, I wont pretend to be able to divine what is the absolute best decision for every individual on this planet but I don't think that I have to either. this world is far from perfect, everyday we see the news and we hear about people starving or being killed, we hear about abused children and single mothers, we hear about evil that seems to the have been set to reign free of any effective system to control it and we sit back and feel with our heart of hearts that we should be looking at new ways to set things straight. We get our calculator and discover that if we only did this one thing here we could save this percentage of the population, that if we could find a way to regulate that over there we could make so many people happier than they are at current.
We know that if we could force people to make certain choices we could improve the statistics we could potentially save lives and help people live longer or potentially better lives.
Its wrong.
So many people look at the statistics on poor people in this country and conclude that people are poor and that is the problem, I don't think that is the problem I think its the symptom of a problem. People today look at the number of poor people today and say society has the means to pay those people so we should force those who can pay to send the people with less money a little more, they look at the number of people who cant go to college and the make a program that uses taxes or takes form the populace to pay for the less fortunate, they focus in on health care and mandate that every person pay so that no one is left with medical expenses they can't afford, they move on over to elderly people and insure that society pays to make sure they get a secure retirement. Its been a pattern for over a hundred years now and it does not look like its going to stop any time soon, we see a problem and set in motion a program that "fixes" that problem and never stop to think about the cause of the problem. I think its a bit like living on a ship with water coming in, we see that the water level is so high that we can't eat our meals at the table and the solution is to build a higher deck that is above the water level, we have people building new staircases and no one is even thinking about finding the leak. Its a problem that we can put off for a while but there comes a time when the higher we build the more it adds to the problem. That's not freedom.
We keep looking at the foundation of this country and saying to ourselves "yeah that was good but we can do better now, we have a better understanding and improved technologies we can make a better country than what they could have ever dreamed" but we fail to include the one factor that has been the biggest battle for any nation in this worlds history: Human nature.
The reason they set as few regulation and in turn as few systems to take care of people as they did is because they understood that freedom is the only way to save people. It does not insure that every person is protected from harm or bad decisions but it was never meant to. They knew enough about human nature to realize that you can't force people to save themselves but you can give people the best chance at solving there own problems by insuring freedom. They new that people isolated from the consequences of their choices never learn and that when you give to people without requiring some sort of payment you cheapen the worth of what is given.
I know that we have experts that can give statistics on how many people we can save with this program or that program but he basis is flawed because we think that we can somehow improve the outcome by removing personal responsibility (Liberty).
We need the opportunity to fail now and again to insure that we learn, the real prize that was won at the birth of this nation was not a chance to insure happiness to every citizen but rather the chance to insure that if we choose to, we can find happiness.
I wish that I could put the feelings I have into words but they never come out right so lets try this: There are some very basic truths when dealing with the human element and when the answer does not take them into consideration you can be assured that it is not an answer at all.
When you sell something for nothing it will, in the end be worth nothing.
If you take away the consequences of peoples actions you take away the chance of people learning from those actions.
When you try to force people to be better you will assuredly make them worse.
And when you take away personal responsibility you take away any chance for people to be truly happy.
If we are taking away the ability for people to choose for themselves what their future holds then we are taking away the chance for people to ever be free. Its not about ensuring that people make the right choice its about making sure that they have the right to choose.
If you had to explain to someone what freedom is how would you start? would you tell them that freedom is the ability to make all the right decisions? Would you tell them how its the ability to have someone else not only show you whats right but also force your hand to make sure you had no choice but to do what is right?
Is it freedom when you are isolated from the consequences of your actions?
I don't know first hand what the rest of the people in this world have lived or experienced, I wont pretend to be able to divine what is the absolute best decision for every individual on this planet but I don't think that I have to either. this world is far from perfect, everyday we see the news and we hear about people starving or being killed, we hear about abused children and single mothers, we hear about evil that seems to the have been set to reign free of any effective system to control it and we sit back and feel with our heart of hearts that we should be looking at new ways to set things straight. We get our calculator and discover that if we only did this one thing here we could save this percentage of the population, that if we could find a way to regulate that over there we could make so many people happier than they are at current.
We know that if we could force people to make certain choices we could improve the statistics we could potentially save lives and help people live longer or potentially better lives.
Its wrong.
So many people look at the statistics on poor people in this country and conclude that people are poor and that is the problem, I don't think that is the problem I think its the symptom of a problem. People today look at the number of poor people today and say society has the means to pay those people so we should force those who can pay to send the people with less money a little more, they look at the number of people who cant go to college and the make a program that uses taxes or takes form the populace to pay for the less fortunate, they focus in on health care and mandate that every person pay so that no one is left with medical expenses they can't afford, they move on over to elderly people and insure that society pays to make sure they get a secure retirement. Its been a pattern for over a hundred years now and it does not look like its going to stop any time soon, we see a problem and set in motion a program that "fixes" that problem and never stop to think about the cause of the problem. I think its a bit like living on a ship with water coming in, we see that the water level is so high that we can't eat our meals at the table and the solution is to build a higher deck that is above the water level, we have people building new staircases and no one is even thinking about finding the leak. Its a problem that we can put off for a while but there comes a time when the higher we build the more it adds to the problem. That's not freedom.
We keep looking at the foundation of this country and saying to ourselves "yeah that was good but we can do better now, we have a better understanding and improved technologies we can make a better country than what they could have ever dreamed" but we fail to include the one factor that has been the biggest battle for any nation in this worlds history: Human nature.
The reason they set as few regulation and in turn as few systems to take care of people as they did is because they understood that freedom is the only way to save people. It does not insure that every person is protected from harm or bad decisions but it was never meant to. They knew enough about human nature to realize that you can't force people to save themselves but you can give people the best chance at solving there own problems by insuring freedom. They new that people isolated from the consequences of their choices never learn and that when you give to people without requiring some sort of payment you cheapen the worth of what is given.
I know that we have experts that can give statistics on how many people we can save with this program or that program but he basis is flawed because we think that we can somehow improve the outcome by removing personal responsibility (Liberty).
We need the opportunity to fail now and again to insure that we learn, the real prize that was won at the birth of this nation was not a chance to insure happiness to every citizen but rather the chance to insure that if we choose to, we can find happiness.
I wish that I could put the feelings I have into words but they never come out right so lets try this: There are some very basic truths when dealing with the human element and when the answer does not take them into consideration you can be assured that it is not an answer at all.
When you sell something for nothing it will, in the end be worth nothing.
If you take away the consequences of peoples actions you take away the chance of people learning from those actions.
When you try to force people to be better you will assuredly make them worse.
And when you take away personal responsibility you take away any chance for people to be truly happy.
If we are taking away the ability for people to choose for themselves what their future holds then we are taking away the chance for people to ever be free. Its not about ensuring that people make the right choice its about making sure that they have the right to choose.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Truth
I don't know how to express the way I feel today, I have been watching some videos of Milton Friedman and it seems to me that there was an intellectual honesty that existed in an earlier time in this country but it was lost and reason and common sense were co-victims of its demise. Some would argue that prior times were more barbaric and more people were victims of oppression and bias whether by skin color, gender, sexual orientation or any other difference society could find. I would argue that it is worse today. I know that sounds a bit rash and maybe it is but that is how I feel things truly are.
Have you ever been to Japan? Its a very beautiful country, I swear Tokyo is cleaner than any city I have ever seen and every person you meet on the street seems willing to help. The people of every business greet you with a smile and even when you are doing something wrong they are very polite about letting you know but after a very short period of time you realize that its a show. every smile every "welcome" every "please" its all fake you start to feel like you might prefer it if someone said "oh great its that guy again" or "hey don't do that!" its like everyone knows what is meant but no one is going to say it
I feel like American society is even worse than that, like we watch the news and study for college but we skip over the plain and simple truths that are staring us in the face. Any honest person that has moved out of their parents basement knows that the debt in this nation is out of control. Any simpleton could explain to you that when you spend more than you make it ends badly and yet we have a congress that is raising the debt ceiling every few months and a federal reserve that it printing no less than $85 billion every month and everywhere you look we are hearing about how the future is looking brighter.
We make laws for pay equality for women or for hiring a minimum number of minority races and then laud our lack of sexism and racism. We solve the problems of government mismanagement by increasing the scope and size of government and every time we find that poor people are getting poorer we solve it by throwing more of other peoples money their way.
If you want to stop racism stop making peoples race a focus point!
If you want to solve unemployment stop making it more expensive for companies to do business and employ workers!
If you want poor people to stop mismanaging money stop giving it to them for free!
If your goal is to have a self sufficient country stop getting into debt!
America is looking more and more like Rome with every passing day, people have convinced themselves that someone else will take care of the problems and that the every day citizen is not obligated to monitor the government, that the professionals have it all handled. We don't need to be actively engaged, we focus on our family and our church or our school activities and let more qualified people handle government.
We the people have lost sight of our true role, our true responsibility and we are loosing touch with the principals that made the greatest nation on earth.
The saddest part of it all is that many people see the what is happening and they don't care enough to change it, we accept it as our lot for past sins and convince ourselves that it has to be this way.
If we were really honest with ourselves we would admit that barbarism has only taken on a kinder face and that progress has been one step forward two steps back since the early 1900's.
Our lack of interest in preserving freedom is the true reflection of our compassion for our fellow man.
Have you ever been to Japan? Its a very beautiful country, I swear Tokyo is cleaner than any city I have ever seen and every person you meet on the street seems willing to help. The people of every business greet you with a smile and even when you are doing something wrong they are very polite about letting you know but after a very short period of time you realize that its a show. every smile every "welcome" every "please" its all fake you start to feel like you might prefer it if someone said "oh great its that guy again" or "hey don't do that!" its like everyone knows what is meant but no one is going to say it
I feel like American society is even worse than that, like we watch the news and study for college but we skip over the plain and simple truths that are staring us in the face. Any honest person that has moved out of their parents basement knows that the debt in this nation is out of control. Any simpleton could explain to you that when you spend more than you make it ends badly and yet we have a congress that is raising the debt ceiling every few months and a federal reserve that it printing no less than $85 billion every month and everywhere you look we are hearing about how the future is looking brighter.
We make laws for pay equality for women or for hiring a minimum number of minority races and then laud our lack of sexism and racism. We solve the problems of government mismanagement by increasing the scope and size of government and every time we find that poor people are getting poorer we solve it by throwing more of other peoples money their way.
If you want to stop racism stop making peoples race a focus point!
If you want to solve unemployment stop making it more expensive for companies to do business and employ workers!
If you want poor people to stop mismanaging money stop giving it to them for free!
If your goal is to have a self sufficient country stop getting into debt!
America is looking more and more like Rome with every passing day, people have convinced themselves that someone else will take care of the problems and that the every day citizen is not obligated to monitor the government, that the professionals have it all handled. We don't need to be actively engaged, we focus on our family and our church or our school activities and let more qualified people handle government.
We the people have lost sight of our true role, our true responsibility and we are loosing touch with the principals that made the greatest nation on earth.
The saddest part of it all is that many people see the what is happening and they don't care enough to change it, we accept it as our lot for past sins and convince ourselves that it has to be this way.
If we were really honest with ourselves we would admit that barbarism has only taken on a kinder face and that progress has been one step forward two steps back since the early 1900's.
Our lack of interest in preserving freedom is the true reflection of our compassion for our fellow man.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
What now?
So today's headlines are all about George Zimmerman and how he was found not guilty, I don't know whether he was guilty of murder or not but it does seem to be a great topic on which to divide a nation. Every comment I have read so far is either in love with Trayvon or in defense of Zimmerman for no other reason than to stand behind gun rites, STOP IT!
What happened to blind justice? are we the people that should be deciding peoples fate through the scope of a biased media? Are we really so sure as a people that our court systems will not provide justice? Maybe I am lost here but I thought that you got your day in court for anything that you have done and if that court finds you innocent appeals may be made but in the end our system makes the final verdict and america stands behind that. I personally think that O.J. Simpson got away with murder but I think that if I had started a riot to try and exact justice it would have been more harmful to civilization than setting a murderer free.
I think we are getting new and more varied ways to polarize this nation every day, the media does its best to push an agenda and the masses are moved by its efforts. And whats worse is the fact that the president just came out with a statement that helps that agenda while at the same time furthers his.
Every year that passes only strengthens my belief that common sense is dead and his mistress Reason has long since fled the scene of the crime.
What happened to blind justice? are we the people that should be deciding peoples fate through the scope of a biased media? Are we really so sure as a people that our court systems will not provide justice? Maybe I am lost here but I thought that you got your day in court for anything that you have done and if that court finds you innocent appeals may be made but in the end our system makes the final verdict and america stands behind that. I personally think that O.J. Simpson got away with murder but I think that if I had started a riot to try and exact justice it would have been more harmful to civilization than setting a murderer free.
I think we are getting new and more varied ways to polarize this nation every day, the media does its best to push an agenda and the masses are moved by its efforts. And whats worse is the fact that the president just came out with a statement that helps that agenda while at the same time furthers his.
Every year that passes only strengthens my belief that common sense is dead and his mistress Reason has long since fled the scene of the crime.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
So this is an attempt at creating some semblance of sanity or rather a way for my brain to retain what sanity I can claim at this point in my life. every morning I wake up and maybe its a matter of shaking off the sleep but I feel like the world has taken a shift that has strayed so far from reason and common sense that I can empathize with Hank Rearden when he tries to communicate with the likes of Balph Eubank.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
So today I was considering writing a love letter to the NSA but it occurred to me that they probably have a good idea of my profile already from the google searches that I have done or maybe from the youtube videos I have watched or the books I have liked and the apps that I have downloaded. So there is probably already a profile about a christian constitutionalist who likes to watch Glenn Beck and believes in the scriptures they probably even notice how much I like anime. In short they could probably guess how much I like tyranny, so yeah no real need I guess.
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