Wait who is the you in the title? Is it every bogeyman you can think of in our modern society? So, guess who is losing? No one? Well no, but why aren’t we winning.
And as you have figured out by now whether you want to admit
it or not, you are not winning by design.
Common sense, practical thinking, taking time to actually
study is discouraged. Is it by society’s bogeymen or by us?
It could be us since we spend more time playing games on our
phones than reading books, well thought out articles on the events of the day, even
watching worthwhile videos on Youtube beyond how to fix the washing machine at
home (those are worthwhile because it never hurts to save some money, the problem
is when you absolutely need to just to eat) or history videos, yet do we learn
anything to apply to our modern world. We do, but how do we apply it?
I am coming across five times more negative than I would
like, yet it is hard to drive a point home in the modern world without being
hit upside the head by the problems of our society. And there is so much doom and
gloom. Do I espouse a revolutionary world? No, I would just like to make our
world better within the existing system for all of us. You know, the milquetoast
of revolutionaries. The polar opposite of Trump.
Yet, what is wrong with wanting something better in a practical
fashion. Apparently everything in our modern world. You have heard the phrase in
some shape form or fashion, if you ain’t rich, you ain’t shit.
And that does seem to be the modern mantra. And then as
always our elitists love to tell us how to live in this world, there is now de-influencers. Yep,
you are now supposed to listen to people tell you not to buy everything you see
on the internet and we need people that are popular to tell us that? “back in
the day” we use to call that common sense, now the idea of common sense is to
be discarded along with everything else that helps us do better such as values
and morals. And have you noticed elitists love to tell us how to live like we
need them to do such. Otherwise how would we exist. Elitism is just another
entity taking our souls and lives away from us and replacing it with programs
and self help books (maybe the ones we shouldn’t be reading) to live a better
life.
We are stuck though. To lead a better life requires effort,
not just the watching the washing machine repair video work, but work at many
levels. Is it revolutionary work? It should not be, however we keep postponing it
so eventually it may need to be. I hope not. I prefer my little milquetoast
attitude if we just do better, things will be better.
Partially goes back to my need to start using resources
better. There is quite an extensive list of viable and even easily readable
books on what is happening and not looking down your nose at us elitism with
valid answers to our problems. I don’t use them enough or this blog would be
peppered with them right and left with answers. You read a well thought out book
on society and resources supplement or enhance the point the author wants to
make. And there are the books, articles
etc that can supplement why I am trying to encourage you to take action
in our society.
Do I get lazy and say you need to do your own research? No
because to prove my points I need to direct you to the correct resources. You
know, common sense approach to helping you help me.
And I also feel that the world’s bogeymen have not won yet,
even though that might be hard to prove with the richest man in the world
running amok in our lives vis a vie his access to all our information through
the entity that is supposed to protect us. The picture looks bleak.
And there are many saying we are in decline and that
eventually we will need to rebuild from the ashes after we have burnt the
planet down. Again the milquetoast in me says we can do better. The longer we
wait the harder it will be to prevent the complete burning of our house.
So what next for me, you, the winners, the losers, the in
between, the future generations, the diehards, the decrepit? I don’t know. What
I do know is I am not ready to give up on us and hopefully one day a few of you
will agree with me. After that it is just another small revolution to bring
back common sense and decency to our lives and a government that is responsive
to us not them.
Yes it is a dreary cloudy day here in North Texas so maybe I
am just feeling a bit morbid. Who knows? It is about to become cold. The news
tells us it will be the coldest two days of the year. Let’s hope we survive 36
hours of below freezing temperature because spring is right around the corner.
And yes this is Texas, surviving 36 hours of below freezing temperature is a
big deal, said sarcastically.
Cheers
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