The Act of Submission

Why do we submit?  There are far too many reasons to count why we submit to authority, but all of those apples seem to fall off of the same tree.  The roots of submission seem to be short-sightedness caused by fear.  There is a reason why people give up, on themselves, their dreams, their family. It is a kind of despair that leads people to submission.

Despair is the complete loss or absence of hope. If a person has completely lost hope of fulfilling their dreams, the despair sets in and they submit to their circumstances.  Despair is very similar to the idea of fate.  I think this is why many people do not like accept fate as having any control of their lives.  Yet, while many do not like the idea of fate and would rather cling to hope, their actions do not support their supposed beliefs.  

Hope is an empty thing.  One can hope and hope, but it is an idea that exists only in the future.  Hope does not exist in the past.  The funny thing about hope is that it comes from a place of powerlessness.  We hope because we feel we have no control.  Whenever we say, "I hope this happens..." We are really saying that we would be surprised if what we want really comes to fruition. So why hope?

Hope is the more upbeat side of submission.  I see our world changing faster than we can keep track of and many people feel powerless.  So what do they do?  They hope that it will all be alright in the end.  I don't hope everything will turn out alright; I know it will! Why? Because I believe that growth is the nature of the universe.  Negativity is just a catalyst for growth and is not the goal, just the path that we sentient beings sometimes have to follow.  I may not see the world at peace in my lifetime, but I know that it will be alright.

How do I have such conviction? I know my connection to God. Not God in the classical religious sense.  I know myself in light of who I could be. I know my potential and I strive for that everyday.  Those who do not know this, I see, quickly submit to peer pressure, their teachers, their family, the mainstream.  These people are not free.

Am I better than anyone else? HELL NO!! I have Soooo Far to go, but I am free because I accept my imperfection even in the face of the perfection from which I was born.  I am the son of God, because man was made in God's own image.  We are perfect in our imperfection, so why do we bury our fears, let them fester into guilt and become slaves to our own feelings of powerlessness?

The more a person submits the more they give away the energy they have.  You cannot destroy energy nor create it.  The energy that is in the universe has always been there and so, has always been with you.  When a person submits to a nefarious authority, they only loan that which is never out of their grasp.  Submission is a choice.  Powerlessness is a choice.

  

Whenever we feel powerless, we are in the state of belief that we are not creative enough to decide another path.  Creativity can bend the very fabric of our reality to our will. Those who submit to the crowd, to whatever is popular simply lack the creativity of forming their own opinion.  

The catchphrase of the Climate Change movement is "if you do not believe in climate change you should be jailed."  I CANNOT BE JAILED FOR MY BELIEFS IN AMERICA! Why are so many falling for this?  This is a violation of human rights!! George Bush (Junior)  is famous for his dictatorial line of "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists!"  I am NOT with the terrorists, but that does not mean I have to be with you, Mr. President. I have my right to personal belief.

Why is COLLECTIVISM on the rise?  More and more people everyday are feeling more and more powerless.  In their floundering powerless state they are needy to cling on to a powerful idea, for someone to tell them who they are, that they are doing the right thing.  Instead of standing on their own, many people look to lose themselves in a crowd.  It is a very human thing to do to want to "fit in" or find like minded people, but when the group someone falls in line with doesn't tolerate difference of opinion, like the False "Green" movement, there is a problem.

It is the same fascism that many accuse the US government of to say, "if you disagree with me, you should be locked up"  That to me is crazy, because if what someone says is really truth, it will come to light soon enough.  Truth always comes out sooner or later.  Truth is patient. A lie or a liar wants you to consent without reading the fine print.  Liars want quick and speedy deals.  If something is truly worth while, I think, it will be there, there is no rush.  

Have you ever been to a car dealer who just wants you to get that loan application in today? Don't worry about the price, just imagine yourself in that car? If you've caved to the salesmen before, it was probably due to a lack of faith not a lack of hope. Because I guarantee you "hoped" the car wasn't a lemon. Do you want a lemon world just because you're afraid to ask a question, to be ostracized? Because all of your friends, family, or favorite celebrities are urging you to "hope" for the best? 

To Submit or not to Submit? That is the question.

Regulations Create Black Markets?

Living Wages?

I have recently had a conversation about the need for a raise in minimum wage.  It is being called a “livable wage”.  As I agree that the cost of living that is skyrocketing and the price of food rising as well, it is unfair to ask the average American to compete with the changing markets and survive simultaneously.  I believe we all deserve the chance to live as freely as possible with as much as we all need. 

 We all need a place to live, food to eat, and security.  On that same note, every week I read some article on some teenage boy or girl from Africa creating a piece of revolutionary technology.  

Now we all know that there are some very prosperous places in Africa, yet, for most families, black families in Africa, they continue to live a standard far below that of the US.  So why are we, with the privilege of finding a job (that demeaning as it is) at McDonald’s are asking for a higher wage when people who see and live in destitution are innovating new technology creating wealth for themselves and others?  Are we simply lazy? Or have we been maneuvered into a position of learned helplessness?

Although I myself have been on government assistance, I am the last person to want to ask the government for more anything!  Welfare is very degrading and it creates a culture of dependency.  There is a saying that isn’t new or fascinating, but still altogether profound, an oldie but a goodie: “When there’s a will, there’s a way.” Why is it that we see homeless in large cities asking for food, shelter and money?  Human beings come from a long history of living like animals.  If I were homeless, I wouldn’t sit around in a freezing cold city like Toronto. I would run into the woods, hunt, fish, and create my own shelter, free from the harassment of non empathetic yuppies and cops.

We’ve forgotten the spirit of Humanity.  That spirit is the WILL to survive.  We’ve come to know survival as a dirty, violent, and unsophisticated endeavor. Why?  Because it is all too often associated with war?  Well we’ve seen how easily war becomes peace, simply when we have a liberal black man as president. Survival is the most primal of human instincts and can be a very destructive force, but if channeled properly, can become an engine to ultimate liberation.

While having this debate about the minimum wage, a friend posed the idea of capping executive pay in proportion to employee pay.  I thought the idea sounded good at first, but is missing a key point, it does not address the loophole that has created strife throughout our known human history.  

Firstly,  if we cap salary, who decides who gets capped, and by how much? With our modern political system as it is, it is as simple as receiving a waiver from some obscure committee that the public will never hear about to circumvent that tiny problem.  Bureaucracies are notorious for being easily corruptible systems, papers get lost, reports get miraculously stamped and cleared, someone gets money deposited in their account and the wheel keeps turning.  

The Problem with Collectivist Ideas

Yet, there is another problem with the idea that was proposed for capping salaries.  This capping of salaries will do many things.  It will discourage innovation and growth on the part of the executive (not by much if they love what they do). This would hurt the lifestyles of so many business owners unnecessarily. But the big red flag for me with this idea is the fact that it doesn’t truly address the problem.

During this debate that I had had with my friend, he pointed out that 95% of the wealth has flowed into the pockets of less than 1% of the population.  This is a fact.  Yet, if we’ve learned anything from the Occupy Wall Street movement it is this: blaming rich people for your problems does not win large public support, it scatters the message, and goes against the fundamental principles of the nation.  I was totally on the same page of the Occupy Movement until the phrase, “We are the 99%” was coined. I know many a millennial felt spiritually ignited by this chant, but this is a turn off to me because it echoes the same tones of the “worker’s party” of fill in the blank. 

It is too easy to get people caught up in the emotions of feeling like they’re getting “screwed”.  When I see rhetoric like this it makes me nervous, because it leads to a change in policy, a regulation, or a bill or law that will be introduced. This law or bill or policy will naturally chop of the heads of the middle class and leave the elite ruling class without a drop of blood on their evening attire.  

Marie Antoinette is famous for her line, “Let them eat cake!” The phrase that lead to her demise.  Elites have since (and even before her) learned from her mistake and know that the true power lies with the people.  History has shown again and again, that the masses will only allow themselves to get screwed so much.  Yet this is always a dangerous time of a knife’s edge, because if you can turn the anger of the masses away from the real problem and pin it on a patsy, eventually they will feel satisfied, their blood lust satiated and life will return to “normal”.

Who Likes the Power of Collectivist Hordes?

In the case of France, they got a leader of the common man turned EMPEROR named Napolean.  In Russia, they got Lenin turned to Stalin, the USSR and starvation of millions. In China, they got Mao and the deaths of over 100 million people and a loss of their culture.  I do not want that to happen in America. 

Okay, now that the doom and gloom is over with, this is the real reason regulations of salary or extra taxes will not work.  In France, when the commoners started to burn and picket, the king order taxes on the nobles but exempted himself.  In China, Mao had his cultural revolution and sent the “bitter clingers” of the past to have their family heirlooms destroyed and sent to prison camps, meanwhile he sat in an imperial palace surrounded by the jewels of China.  

Psychos and criminals will always exempt themselves or something else will happen....a black market will emerge.  

We already are seeing an exemption of our elites from the laws that bind us, the ordinary citizen.  In my friendly debate about wages with my friend, he knew that the problem wasn’t the 1% but the 0.01%. I agreed, but I know that not every American is sophisticated enough to understand this concept, especially those who live hand to mouth.  The 0.01% are what we call Plutocrat, the Globalists. They are the ones who participate in global think tanks, sit on foreign councils and set international policy that heavily influences national policy and the dealings of UN policy.  

These people are powerful, but they are also very sophisticated and this is where their true power lies.  All the money in the world can’t save you from 7 billion people that wish to rip your head off if they ever learned that you were pulling the strings.  So these elites know they must either be completely invisible to the average person or play the role of the nice philanthropist. The philanthropist can convince people of the western world that they are spending millions of dollars on improving the world for a good cause, when they are only using their wealth to set global policy that benefits themselves.

If you think about it, how do you know if these people have the same idea of an ideal world as you do? After all they live a completely different life than you do. They don’t have the financial limitations as you do, they are treated like royalty everywhere they go and they have different goals than you do.  Your goal is to make it through the week, the month, the year. Elites plan for the next 100 years of their progeny’s lives.  Now ask yourself: What kind of world do they think is ideal?

It is too difficult to impose a salary cap on someone who’s business is divided in three or more countries with vastly different policies.  It is almost impossible to put sanctions on an individual who has their money diversified into portfolios of portfolios in private holding groups and trusts.  So why do we look to regulations to magically give our elites business ethics?  It is not the branch manager or regional or even sometimes national executive who is influencing national or global policy. That guy makes 10 million dollars a year and he’s considered the 1%, but he is a small fry compared to the $50 billion dollar globalist.  The $10million a year guy lives in America. He may have a house on an island or multiple accounts off shore, but he isn’t the problem.

Last year HSBC, the largest bank of China, got caught laundering billions in drug money and possibly weapons money.  The possibility of funding terrorism through a bank or some other international front is very high.  Almost every powerful country has been caught doing this.  Eric Holder, the attorney general was caught in the “Fast & Furious” scandal where he was supply cartels in Mexico with weapons to cause mayhem. It is theorized this was done in an effort to vilify the 2nd amendment.

When alcohol was banned during prohibition, the Chicago mafia rose to power. Your average law biding citizen tried a bath tub brew, went to a speakeasy or steered clear of this newly proclaimed sin to man. This did not stop alcohol nor the crime that rose from making it illegal.  This is the same reason why the war on drugs is a joke.  There are too many studies that have shown that decriminalizing drugs (not legalizing) lowers crime.  When people have to go into the dark, break the law to get what they want, they can be pulled into a world of violence and criminality. 

Prostitution should be decriminalized. This would protect sooooo many women from the abuse and possible death that they encounter by having to do what they do in the cover of night.  An added bonus, it would -for women/men who want to- create an alternative career path.  Making it illegal doesn’t stop politicians from using prostitutes. It only makes the prostitute more vulnerable and the politician bribable, thus breeding more corrupt practices.  


I'm not just here to complain....

So what is my solution?  Firstly, don’t give more shadows to a creature that only survives in darkness.  Spain got rid of its insane drug problem by totally legalizing it.  Don’t create more laws and regulations that will simply punish the law-abiding and the the innocent. Simply enforce the laws that we already have in place.  For too long, we’ve had a system that is complicit with illegal activities, the end justifying the means.  We need a resurgence in morality. This is the only thing that can save us. I do not mean religion. I simply mean a moral compass.

How do people attain this? Maybe I am naive, but in my own experience I stopped living a life of immoral behavior and lying when I discovered myself as a spiritual being. When I learned I was greater than just my body, my clothes, my car, I was led by a better compass.  Someone who knows themselves as an immortal soul of energy and spirit would not make a deal for more money knowing it pollutes an entire populations drinking water.  A person who bankrupts and entire nation and enslaves the people to imaginary debt is someone who has a very limited scope of his impact in the universe.  People like that are petty and are to be mourned. For they are already dead.

We need to start from the beginning. Teaching our children the things we never knew, not co-dependence, but empathy in independence.  Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows that only 1% of the population achieves self-realization, the highest point of living as a human. Not the 1% of financial lordship, but the 1% of fully self-propelled and self-contained people.  We need to get our children to the point where they don’t need anyone else, but love others with compassion, as they love themselves.  We don’t need anymore fireside drum circles singing kumbaya. 

We need a generation of spiritual warriors.  Our generation and those before us were in deep need of the spiritual therapy session. These new beings are ready. Let’s not damage them with our insecurities about wealth, class, sex, race, or religion. Let’s let them choose, and teach them how to teach themselves anything they wish to know. When we do that, they will far surpass our wildest imaginations.

Founding Fathers vs. Special Interest Groups

In the argument from the Liberty/Libertarian movement is for a renewal of the old. There is an attitude of "let's get back to basics", the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.  I couldn't agree more.  However, there are some facts that should be known by Constitutionalists that could be eye-opening and allow any liberty lover in a discussion with a mindless (false) liberal more educated talking points.

The Founding Fathers were by no stretch of the imagination, pure geniuses.  Yet, we must be realistic of their actual situation as human beings.  In the time of infancy of the Union, our founders were considered to be something of an aristocracy.  They would be considered the modern day 1%. Not the .001% like the real people we need to be weary of, but the 1% that can seem distant and detached from the common citizen but doesn't fly to conferences and $10k dinners every other weekend.

Still, even with this knowledge, we cast these men in the light of the times. George Washington grew hemp and smoked bud! He had to be a cool guy, right? Well, he was also one of the largest slave owners in the colony. I know most of my black brothers and sisters take offense to this and condemn any works of this old cherry tree chopping white man, but I implore people of color to identify times that the colonies were living in. A man can be brilliant and be short-sighted in his lifestyle habits.  But I digress.

Despite all of the shortcomings of Washington, we must identify the small acts he committed that changed the world.  His stepping down from Presidency although so many begged him to stay, was a revolutionary act.  In a time where dictators and royalty were rife, Washington denied the title, pushed back from the table, folded and went home.  Washington's retirement prevented the newly formed America from becoming a dictatorship.


SLAVERY?

In fact, so many things that the Founding Fathers did laid the foundation for liberty in its true form, something they knew could not be had for all in the time.  The topic of slavery is highly debatable in the time of the 13 colonies. In that era, the British Empire had already outlawed slavery, yet the colonies continued the practice.  Of course, the British Empire was being deceitful with this policy as they wouldn't physically put people in chains, but their imperial system suppressed so many cultures around the world, so much in fact, that it wasn't until the 20th century when colonies like China and India could truly break away.

So slavery comes in many forms. But on the topic of slavery, there were many reasons why the American aristocracy didn't wish to outlaw slavery.  In 1790, 48.5% of the population lived in the south.  To keep stability in the shaky new republic, the Northern aristocrats had to compromise.  There was much debate about whether the slaves should be counted in a census of population. This was a cause for concern before they decided on representation or power of the states based upon population. This is why we have a senate and a congress. One has its number of representatives based upon population, the other does not. This is also the reason why slaves were counted as only 3/5 of a person. It was a technicality based upon compromise. It doesn't seem to have a purely racist, nefarious purpose.

The right to vote, we must remember, was denied to white men as well. White men who did not own land were in the same boat with women and blacks, at least when it came to voting.  This is why I dislike it so much when I hear a person say, "But back then you couldn't vote unless you were a white man who owned land!" This is true, but if you are not well versed in your history you wouldn't understand that not all white men owned land.

Often times the brutality that was given to black slaves in the south came from white men who either were simple share-croppers (meaning they didn't own the land), farm hands (white men who worked the land as "supervisors"), or mid-level land owners (white men who owned land yet weren't particularly wealthy.  I find it hard to imagine a very wealthy white southerner doing the dirty work of beating the slaves. It doesn't mean that they didn't give the orders for brutality, but if they didn't do it themselves this shows the lack of conviction.

My point in saying this is racism was very real in early America, but we must understand that the men who actually ran America had a fear of the black man in a different way than that of the poor white man in America. The poor white man in America feared the black man the way we fear illegal aliens today. Their place on the social and economical ladder was threatened. The upper crust white man was only scared of the black man in the political sense. The southern white feared that if they freed the blacks or allowed free northern blacks to vote, they would "take over". I guess it was the same fear just in a different sphere of life.

So what did these fearful white men and women do? They launched campaigns to discredit the black and created false "scientific" information for our inferiority. Whatever. It wasn't the first time this was done in the world. My point with this is that if most black people were aware that the racism in America stems from insecurity rather than deep emotional hatred, they would view racism in a completely different light.  No one wakes up one morning and just starts hating without cause and colonial America was no different. The racism toward the black man or the red man started with fear and insecurity. As Yoda says, "Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering."Hatred is a by-product of fear.

PRIVATE INTEREST?

Okay, back to the Founding Fathers. The founders were looking out for numero uno, plain and simple! This wasn't as bad as you think, though, because they made the laws for all citizens based around the way they wished to be treated.  They were fearful of tyranny, fearful of their equally intelligent and wealthy colleagues taking over the US and declaring a new Monarchy. Their sweet paranoia laid the ground work for the freedoms we have today. For example, the Bill of Rights, but more specifically the 4th amendmend: the freedom from unlawful search and seizures. Or how about the 3rd, that states you don't have to house soldiers if you don't wish to.  At the time, these two amendments protected people (mainly themselves) from something that was more or less a European tradition! A group of military thugs, during a battle or something would just bust into peoples homes, take their goods, rape their women and sleep there before moving on. This still goes on today, but in America, by law we can defend ourselves against this blatant violation of human rights with the 2ND 2ND 2ND AMENDMENT!!

So who's in control here? I don't think that many Americans feel (especially now) the self-determination that our Founding Fathers had hoped to create.  The right of self-determination was obviously of great value to the founders, yet may not have always been seen by the governed. This is where my thought process may get sticky for some.  Although the founders behaved like a modern day special interest group or think tank (or is it the other way around?) their actions do differ where it counts.

Although, many who were not land owners could not vote, the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights paves the way for equality for people decades if not centuries in the future.  What most may not understand is that innovators are usually way ahead of their time. Because they are timeless men and women, their lifestyles seem to contradict their words, because they have to live in a similar manner as the people who are stuck in the time  they live or be treated as "witches" or "devil-worshippers" or lepers or mad men.  I do not know why Washington or Jefferson had so many slaves when their words spoke of other things. Yet, I look at the fruits of their aims: America, and I see that the beginnings of their dream come to fruition.

Like Martin Luther King saying, "I may not get there with you..." innovators do not expect to see the beauty of their dreams in their lifetimes. They know of the stubborn close mindedness at which they must hack away. So as the actions of the father's could be condemned they pale next to the special interests of their modern day "counterparts".

The special interests of today wish to create a society of the worker bee.  The Founding Fathers wished to create a society where anyone could work their way out of their positions in life through Education and (yes) Religion into their vision of enlightenment.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never can be."
-Thomas Jefferson-

Our modern republic was meant for a highly educated population. Thus, the decline of the power and beauty of America. The more dumbed down the people become the more easily swayed and convinced that we live in a democracy and not a Republic. Because of this, so many special interest groups are influencing the education system with lobbies in Washington, D.C. Uh...Common Core?  These same groups are funded by large companies that simply wish to swell their ranks with uneducated disempowered slaves!! 

Founding Fathers vs. Special Interest?

All in all, the founders and the special interests of today look almost exactly the same.  The brothers of liberty seem the same as the Council on Foreign Relations or Trilateral Comission.  The difference to me, that makes all the difference: THE METHODS.  Think Tanks of today wish to create a utopia through depopulation and controlled economies, because they think the masses are too dumb to create utopia on their own. This is an excuse for a practically literal allergy to the "unwashed masses". The Founding Fathers wished to create a utopia through an allowance of freedom, human rights, free markets and the like.  We now have homeland security and NSA spying for the purpose of "creating a freer society". This method only breeds more of the same. If we don't wake up to the real essence of FREEDOM, we'll be easily duped by the double think of "Freedom is Slavery"

Agreeing to Disagree

We live in a world of great division and polarity. So it is not surprising that, in America, the land of the free (to all you can eat), we find a polarity of opinion that mainly falls into two large groups: Republicans and Democrats.  Behold the two-party political system. Yet, upon further investigation, a deeper look into history, we find that political opinion is as malleable as child's play-do.

Before we get into the methods of "Double Think", we have to understand how this form of confusion can be brought upon the unsuspecting citizen.  Values. Values are the guiding beacon of society. Of course, due to the diversity of the culture and population of the USA their are countless variations of what values can look like, but there are some essential values that every human being SHOULD share. To implement a society of double think values have to wiped away and replaced with a superficial and shallow version of what they once were.

Much more can be learned from the China of the early 20th century,  than from their economic machinations of the early 21st. In the early 20th century China went through a great political change. I don't know if any of you have seen the movie "The Last Emperor"(1987)  (it's a good movie), but if you haven't I highly recommend it. It gives a very good, very 90's movie explanation of the downfall of the old China from the viewpoint of the Last Emperor of China. Although this movie does not explain the entirety of what happened politically, we can still see parallels between Chinese society and our own American one.  There were three key things that were happening at this time that caused the end of Chinese imperial rule.

1) Traditional Chinese culture was diluted by the colonial invasion from Europe. It seems as though the whole of Europe had their hands and influence over China, crippling the self-esteem of the people thus was coined the term "Sick man of Asia".

2) The royal house had become so decadent that it was not the lack of technology in the form of advanced weaponry that led to the conquering of China, but the weak and corrupt leadership that cared nothing for its people and only for its own survival that allowed the "wolves in for dinner", so to speak.

3) With growing frustration from the Chinese people, the most educated decided to create a counter political body to reclaim their sense of pride and honor. Enter Sun-Yat Sen. Although this was a overall positive thing for the people of China. The rise of a new political and military power led to years of civil war amongst the small "chieftains"of the different regions of China. This was compounded by foreign money and influence that fueled this internal conflict for years to come.

All three of these things can be said are happening in America today.  I AM NOT AGAINST IMMIGRATION. What I am against is the amnesty given to illegal immigrants when I know of many good, upstanding people that have worked for years, if not decades working in the states that are still waiting for citizenship. I think diversity in America is a good thing overall, but to allow millions of people (with little skills) fleeing a collapsed state into our country while we are on the verge of collapse is just not intelligent. Just like China, our culture and society is being diluted by another culture, that while beautiful, has no concept of our American system. I could elaborate more on this (and probably will) but not now.

Our "royal house" of the executive branch in the form of our President and our "nobles" in the form of senators and congressmen and women and political class in general, are so corrupt and decadent that they would sell out the American people in a heartbeat for more booty. Case in point ACA or the Affordable Care Act. Written by both Republican and Democratic groups- so it is bipartisan regardless of what the mainstream media would like for you to believe- was made mandatory for the American citizen while all of the politicians were made exempt. Now, regardless of what you may think of "Obamacare", good or bad, it is highly suspect for a group of people to enforce a law for most of everyone else, but make themselves exempt. If Obamacare is SOOOOO GREAT why make yourself exempt?

The third connection between the US and early 20th  century China is a little harder to see, but it is beginning and evident in the small clues and cracks in our national identity.  A new political thought and idea is unveiling itself now. When we see a large influx of politically ignorant illegal immigrants who have come from a democratic socialist or communist country in central or south America this should be cause for alarm, a red flag of political change.

 If you, with a sweeping executive power, without consent of 2/3 of the political opposition, give millions of people citizenship in your "DREAM" country, those people now become your political pawns.  Those very people will vote anytime anywhere for the person or group of people who they perceive has 'saved' their lives, because of course, that group must be filled with good people. That group could not possible be using millions of people as political pawns, could they?

If we look at these three connections we can see a similarity between the fall of imperial China and the coming fall of America. This is how Values of a society become eroded, through dilution of culture, decadence and "new ideas" that people don't know how to handle or integrate into existing values.

We believe that we live in a "new world" when indeed, nothing is new under the sun.  We believe that gay marriage is a new thing when it is as old as dirt. We think that there is a majority of people against it when I think most people could care less. Politicians represent large groups of people, but they are not those people. So if a closed-minded Republican politician makes a short-sighted statement about gay marriage or abortion, it does not mean that someone who may support them agrees with everything they say.

We believe that because technology has changed that people have changed when this couldn't be further from the truth. A person can accept almost anything as long as they are acclimated to it. This is why I have a saying that "Racism does not exist". What I mean by this is 'racism' can only exist in an environment of ignorance, meaning the person just does not know. If someone does not agree with their lifestyle, GREAT! They are not supposed to understand your lifestyle. They are not you.

The point I am getting at is this: We are being pushed into a way of thinking that is not new. In fact it has been the way of the world predominantly for the last 2,000 years.  Communism, socialism, fascism, they all sound good in principle, but in essence they all require one thing: collectivist thinking. Collectivism is so essentially anti-human and anti-freedom because it creates a duality within the individual that is border line schizophrenic.  You understand what you desire as an individual but repress yourself for the sake of political correctness, acceptance and popularity. When in reality, all you receive form this behavior is dangerous dependence and low self-esteem.

If we continue down this road, we will find ourselves repeating the history of China's Cultural Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution or worse yet, Germany's Nationalist Socialist Party. We should feel grateful every time we hear a fundamentalist Christian spew some dogmatic slogan that we perceive as homophobic. We should embrace the 1st amendment of the Klan. We should take Pride in a gay parade. We should congratulate a 'Skeptic' of 'climate change'. We should rejoice when someone wishes to homeschool their children.

This is a country of freedom and independence. The moment we all start to just agree with each other without opposition, a warning flag should go off in your mind. At the very least, we should stop and check if we all really agree or if it's just peer pressure or political ignorance. It's great to agree, but it is much better to discuss, just to make sure your understand truly where everyone truly stands.