An America
that celebrates our differences is a strange new land. There was a time not
long ago when we celebrated that which unites us as a people and a
country. That day is gone for many of
us. There is a stain on the ceramic tile
floor at my bathroom throne and that stain gets worse with every dribble. This slacker does have a poor aim coupled
with poor housekeeping skills but is it not also true that we all pee? All of we human beings ingests nutrients and
have the same way to expel waste so why can’t we celebrate our sameness. Instead, we choose to celebrate all that other
stuff, like race, religion, relative wealth and all that supposed free stuff.
Bottom line,
we are all brothers and sisters. As
Americans, we can share a national identity, we can share a history choosing
freedom above all other interests. Four
hundred years ago when the people were birthing our unique new nation, freedom was
celebrated above personal security and economic interests. What is the difference, why is America leaning
to be different, then and now? The
answer to this question is simple and obvious, the gift of freedom means that we
are willing to live within a competitive life situation, it means that we are
willing to earn our respective life situation.
Healthy
competition has become unpopular in our new America. Our politicians have no stomach for telling it
like it is, in the short term their future depends upon their relative
expertise at lying. The promotion of a
mommy society that gives out personal security according to its own priorities
is the end of freedom. Such a top down
society is to promise everything and deliver only what is necessary to maintain
control over the people. Can any
reasonable American call any such system freedom?
The
competitively squeamish scream, competition isn’t fair! Grow up, life in this world has never been
fair, fairness, what is that? Why do
millions of American gets so worked up over a football or baseball
competition? We do so because we are competitive
beings, for millions of years we humans have had to compete for our next meal,
it is who we are as humans.
Competition
means that there are those who appear to be winners and those who appear to be
losers. Appearance are deceiving, none of us wins at
all times and in all areas of life, we win some and we lose some. I was
a truck owner operator most of my life and the only win I can claim was that I loved
what I was doing and I managed to financially stay afloat. There was no big payday at the end of that
rainbow but as the saying goes, it is better for me to have loved (tried) and
lost than never to have loved (tried) at all. I am blessed to be an American with the
freedom to try whatever I may choose.
The rest of the world knows only some form of top down government
control.
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
