Wow.
We as a nation could not ask for a better chance to do some real soul
searching. That search should tender
positive results for our nation, our society as a whole. Will the lesson be squandered? Most likely the answer is, probably. Unfortunately the sad practice of playing the
blame game will continue, the indoctrination of ideologies, the refusal to let
go of past angers will foster more of what the mirror of Charlottesville could
let us see. It seems pretty clear as to what the results of hatred and anger
can be, but as to the real causes behind it all, put the blinders on because we
don’t really want to see the why. We
miss the why because we always want to blame the other guy in lieu of seeing
all sides of the matter, including our part (as in all contests) our side.
The majority, of the United States of
America citizens, are aware of the hatred generated by indoctrination in the
children of radical Islamists. When we
see Isis parents, pounding the bigotry of their beliefs into 4 and 5 year old
children in order to ensure the survival of the ideology, the parents
themselves show us the effects of indoctrination. When we see the indoctrination of fears and
hatreds being smeared upon the minds of our own children we are unable to see
the correlation. We are not born into
this world in a state of fear, anger, and hatred. Somebody has to teach us who to fear and
hate. We also have to be taught how to
act and react to our targets. That
mental sickness, and the acceptance of it as normal makes it ok for me but not
for you. Indoctrination can be a very
subtle force, and in most cases it is hidden by generations of repetition.
In our own country this form of
anti-(choose your poison) is turning our country into hundreds of small groups
at odds with one another because of some injustice, real or perceived. The United part of our society is unravelling
at an exponential rate, fueled by the words of those who would see our country fail. We as a society need to fall back on the adage,
“United we Stand, divided we Fall”.
We as individuals need to take an honest hard look at the facts of our
history, the actual results of our way of life, the progress our way of life
has made in all forms of human endeavor.
Our growth has not always been pure and beautiful. There have been some very ugly growing pains
along the way and those need to be recognized to the same degree as are the
successes. We as a people need to be able
to put our place in this time in perspective to where we have been, how we
failed and how we succeeded. Trying to
erase the facts of both good and bad will not change where we are today but it
will increase the probability of failure tomorrow. The above preamble takes me
to the subject that prompted the following commentary from this plain and
simple citizen of the United States of America.
What teachable possibilities have the violence in Charlottesville
(8/13/2017) given us and what can we hope to change.
We need to stop accepting violence as
a form of discourse for change. We need
to stop accepting partial truth as fact. We have to stop attributing the
actions of a few to the all of other groups. We need to accept and learn from our
past. We need to look for ways to effect
change through the use of reasonable discourse.
We need to start acting like a society of adults rather than one
comprised of toddlers. We need to
understand that forcing political correctness merely masks hatred, bigotry it
doesn’t change those illnesses. We need
to embrace our differences at the same time as we recognize and respect the
rights of one another to have different goals and beliefs. I am quite sure that everyone has their own
list, but as individuals we need to inspect our beliefs in the face of fact not
fiction.
God Bless our Nation,
our warriors,
and our leaders.
Love your neighbor, and yourself.
Pray for peace and understanding.
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