Anti Federalist
06-26-2012, 10:14 PM
I come across something like this.
This is just one of a series of comments on Eric Peters' car blog site. (Which would sound just like mine, if I had one.)
Shep, another young man that has it figured out:
http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/06/24/lil-stinker-won-but-government-is-winning/
Oh believe me I’m GLAD about the housing crash. Houses are dirt cheap (comparatively) from what they were. It’s not entirely out of the scope for someone my age to save up and get a house now.
In response to the whole growing up thing. I didn’t mean to imply that any generation had it significantly easier, or denigrate your generation. I guess I was more criticizing the obscene school environments of today, more than being forced to grow up faster. Some generations had to worry about being pulled into a war they didn’t want to fight, for instance.
Civil liberty violations, extreme amounts of homework. I can remember falling asleep on a mountain of books on numerous nights. Six plus hours of homework every night kind of thing. That’s just the start of it.
If you were a loner, you were automatically pulled in for ‘counseling,’ because that wasn’t what they deemed normal. I myself went through that, as I used to be quite shy up until high school. Being deemed ADHD, I was also put on mind altering substances for a large percentage of my childhood.
We were treated like guinea pigs. Filled with drugs. The smart kids were forced to follow the crowd. That’s more an indictment on public education as a whole. The one size fits all approach doesn’t work. It also cannot work, because every human being is unique, and their needs in education are as well.
I gotta say I appreciate the compliment in saying I could probably handle a house repair. I do what I can. Always learning something new. My parents were baby boomers and have a real ‘do it yourself’ attitude, so that definitely rubbed off on me.
There’s a lot to be angry about with the state of our country. From insane taxes to the banks running amok, to endless wars of aggression that do not make us any safer, and only serve to further drive our country into debt.
Then you have a phony two party system that serves the interests of the few at the top at the expense of EVERYONE else. It’s like being asked what you want to drink and only being offered Coke or Pepsi. What if you want water? Or tea? Or an OJ? Nope, too bad. It’s Coke or Pepsi.
Also, treating corporations as though they are people, allowing effectively unlimited campaign donations.. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and breathe, otherwise you’ll become too angry to focus on the root causes of the problems.
I firmly believe there are three root causes to these problems. 1) Money backed by absolutely nothing, or to be more accurate, backed by debt. 2) Apathy. People are generally, especially today, too tired when they get home to protest or speak up, thanks in part to how hard they have to work to make ends meet. It’s enough trouble to keep the bills paid without having to write a letter to someone, who will most likely never read it, or fail to address in any real capacity your grievances. Combine that with the reality TV debacle, and any lack of real creativity in the media we see day to day, and it produces a sterile, servile populace that exists only to do as little as possible because of how out of whack the whole system is. Finally, root cause 3) the intervention in almost every aspect of your life by government. Because somebody has to get paid to do all this regulating and controlling, there’s a significant tax burden, taking away from TRULY essential services, and instead pushing them into ‘services’ which serve to benefit only those in power, by helping them look good and get re-elected.
Again, sorry to ramble. I type too much, I swear. I hope I covered everything, and thanks for the reply!
Shep
This is just one of a series of comments on Eric Peters' car blog site. (Which would sound just like mine, if I had one.)
Shep, another young man that has it figured out:
http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/06/24/lil-stinker-won-but-government-is-winning/
Oh believe me I’m GLAD about the housing crash. Houses are dirt cheap (comparatively) from what they were. It’s not entirely out of the scope for someone my age to save up and get a house now.
In response to the whole growing up thing. I didn’t mean to imply that any generation had it significantly easier, or denigrate your generation. I guess I was more criticizing the obscene school environments of today, more than being forced to grow up faster. Some generations had to worry about being pulled into a war they didn’t want to fight, for instance.
Civil liberty violations, extreme amounts of homework. I can remember falling asleep on a mountain of books on numerous nights. Six plus hours of homework every night kind of thing. That’s just the start of it.
If you were a loner, you were automatically pulled in for ‘counseling,’ because that wasn’t what they deemed normal. I myself went through that, as I used to be quite shy up until high school. Being deemed ADHD, I was also put on mind altering substances for a large percentage of my childhood.
We were treated like guinea pigs. Filled with drugs. The smart kids were forced to follow the crowd. That’s more an indictment on public education as a whole. The one size fits all approach doesn’t work. It also cannot work, because every human being is unique, and their needs in education are as well.
I gotta say I appreciate the compliment in saying I could probably handle a house repair. I do what I can. Always learning something new. My parents were baby boomers and have a real ‘do it yourself’ attitude, so that definitely rubbed off on me.
There’s a lot to be angry about with the state of our country. From insane taxes to the banks running amok, to endless wars of aggression that do not make us any safer, and only serve to further drive our country into debt.
Then you have a phony two party system that serves the interests of the few at the top at the expense of EVERYONE else. It’s like being asked what you want to drink and only being offered Coke or Pepsi. What if you want water? Or tea? Or an OJ? Nope, too bad. It’s Coke or Pepsi.
Also, treating corporations as though they are people, allowing effectively unlimited campaign donations.. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and breathe, otherwise you’ll become too angry to focus on the root causes of the problems.
I firmly believe there are three root causes to these problems. 1) Money backed by absolutely nothing, or to be more accurate, backed by debt. 2) Apathy. People are generally, especially today, too tired when they get home to protest or speak up, thanks in part to how hard they have to work to make ends meet. It’s enough trouble to keep the bills paid without having to write a letter to someone, who will most likely never read it, or fail to address in any real capacity your grievances. Combine that with the reality TV debacle, and any lack of real creativity in the media we see day to day, and it produces a sterile, servile populace that exists only to do as little as possible because of how out of whack the whole system is. Finally, root cause 3) the intervention in almost every aspect of your life by government. Because somebody has to get paid to do all this regulating and controlling, there’s a significant tax burden, taking away from TRULY essential services, and instead pushing them into ‘services’ which serve to benefit only those in power, by helping them look good and get re-elected.
Again, sorry to ramble. I type too much, I swear. I hope I covered everything, and thanks for the reply!
Shep