All of us are flawed creatures…we all do stupid things on occasion. But for most of us, these stupid actions entail a degree of embarrassment or shame. The best example of that is when we slip and fall…and the first thing we do upon recovering is to look around to see if anyone saw us fall. We feel kinda silly. I fear that many amongst us have lost the capacity to feel silly. The truth is that there are people today who have lost the capacity to be embarrassed or ashamed.
We
have reached a point in our society, culture, and government where the term
stupid has been dumbed-down to a test not based on reality and common sense, but to a test of wishful thinking. If one is
bold enough to claim a foolish action or a silly phrase is rational and then sticks
to their guns, there will be occasions where they are praised for genius or
ingenuity…even if the phrase or action is
clearly stupid. And if enough people
join together to endorse a certain type of stupid rhetoric or behavior as
positive and redeeming, then that rhetoric or behavior can become blindly
accepted as wholesome and will escape a fundamental test of reason. This is
the world we live in.
As
I was once told by one of the best bosses I ever knew…sometimes the train has
to wreck in order to fix its problems.
Perhaps the train wrecks stemming from these stupid actions are becoming
more prevalent. Perhaps the chickens are
beginning to come home and roost. Perhaps
people like the presidents of elite colleges are starting to wake up and
realize how incredibly naïve and foolish their attitudes have been. We can only hope that the pushback against
some of the most incredibly dumb things around us is beginning in earnest. If so…the relevant question is whether or not
that awakening will extend to our selection of government officials next
November.
In
fact, that reinstitution of common sense needs to be extended deep into our
culture and society, become a virus in our communities and churches, once again
find a place in our regimen of child rearing…and become a staple of the American way of life. We have to get back to the point where we can
all agree that “stupid is as stupid does”. And just as critically, we all have to
rediscover that essential human component of feeling foolish when “we say or do something stupid”. Needless to say, we are far past the point where
we need to stop putting stupid people in charge of our affairs.
Now
I am being quite "liberal" (no pun intended; OTOH…why deny reality?)
with the term “stupid”; but we are
where we are. We have reached a point
where when we oftentimes do something
dumb, those around us…our friends, our family, our peers…either refuse to call
out our foolishness or sometimes even applaud us for it. Why do
they do this? Do they lack the
common sense, the courage, or even the decency to let us know how silly we are
behaving? Or, do they have an inner fear
of being the one person in the group…the
lone soul in that particular bubble…that is actually tethered to
reality? Are we so indoctrinated in
group-think that we have become incapable of independent opinion?
If
we continue to become desensitized to ignorant behavior and flawed logic, then
at some point in time, stupidity will replace common sense as the “norm”.
We will then live in a bizzaro
world where stupid is good/common sense is bad, up is down/down is up, dumb is
rewarded/smart is penalized, and most tragic of all…evil is acceptable/goodness
is reviled. Perhaps I am over-reacting
to things that I perceive around me.
Read along with me here and see what you think…
Schools should be for learning and preparing our children for gainful
employment as a functional American citizen.
They should not be social
experimentation labs or substitutes for parents. They are not training seminars for
progressive thought.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/07/how-were-the-universities-lost/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/moral-bankruptcy-exposed-in-academia/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/the-presidents-walk-it-back.php
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/12/bidens-even-worse-version-of-free-college/
Are we seeing the beginnings of the
pushback?
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/06/charter-schools-rise-to-the-challenge/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/her-name-was-magill.php
Our government does not need to be picking
winners and losers in our economy. They should not permit their personal agendas
and ideals to dictate national economic policy.
They should plain and simply
insure a stable and reliable currency environment, a fair and transparent
playing field for all consumers and business, and an incentive for ambition,
innovation, and hard work that is to be rewarded when it is displayed.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/why-we-are-careening-toward-bankruptcy.php
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-scale-of-governments-fiscal-sloppiness/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/housing-time-bomb-human-cost-affordability-crisis
Our government should be “by the people and for the people”…not “over the people and dictating to the people”. The astronomic growth in the sheer breadth
and depth of government is breathtaking.
It is becoming dangerously autocratic in nature and is rapidly
abandoning the fundamental citizen liberties granted to us by our
Constitution. There are people who want
to reinvent this government in their own “new
and different” vision and many of these people are today in positions of
power and influence within our government.
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/leaning-tower-of-fisa/
“This” is what happens when our
government departments and agencies become politically-weaponized and then we
have what can only be described as a “two-tiered” system of justice. January 6 was irresponsible and tragic; but
how much worse was it than the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter riots? Was the consequent justice equivalent? Who was punished and who was rewarded…for the
same actions?
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/07/the-why-is-now-obvious/
Why oh why do we pick from amongst
us the most flawed and corrupted individuals to serve in our government? Time after time we have done it…we learn nothing from our mistakes. Even now, we are hell-bent on giving
ourselves a presidential choice next year between dumb and dumber, zigzag and
squiggly, decrepit and senile, and known quantities that are nowhere near the
standards we should be setting for our chief executive.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-indefensible-shameless-sordid-hunter-biden/
We can all, in good faith, debate
politics, morals, ethics, government function, foreign affairs, the weather,
and most any other topic that might get thrown our way. What we cannot
debate, in good faith, is the fact that one of the fundamental problems
with American culture and society today is the failing of the family unit; the
fact that too many kids are growing up with parents that either are not there or parents that simply do not care. Here is an outstanding podcast that addresses
that issue directly and honestly.
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