Consequences of Today

I haven't posted in awhile due to the belief that not many are paying attention and it seems that other media sources seem to say what I am thinking rather well. For some reason I am wanting to bring to mind the concept of consequences.

Obama the Great: King Poser of the West

This basic idea is somewhat missing in today's society to the point that people actually have crying fits or get angry, sometimes even violent when they have to pay the price for their decisions. This creates a world where everyone is afraid to say anything for fear of upsetting someone around them. Right now this is on my mind because of what we as a nation have done to ourselves. We allowed ourselves to be duped by a poser because he was telling most people what they wanting to hear, "I have hope for you, the government will take care of you, if I am elected I will solve your problems, I will get us out of this recession". What has happened is things got worse.

This man never intended to help us become a stronger nation, from the get go he has wanted to redistribute all that America has to the rest of the world since in his ideology America had stolen everything from the rest of the world anyway.1 Well, how many countries did we help by rescuing the world during WWII? We even went into Japan and rebuilt the country after being forced to fight a war with them that we didn't want. Once we were done they owed us an awful lot of money that we forgave. How about the billions we send in foreign aid around the world? As a country we have taken the least from the rest of the world and given the most. The resource that has been the least appreciated and yet has been the most costly is the precious blood of American men and women in the battle for freedom around the world. So the viewpoint that we owe the world for all of the riches we have accumulated from our own industry, altruism and natural resources is sophomoric and represents a complete lack of understanding of the overall picture. Even the idea that the white man owes the black man something for all of the work they did as slaves can be debated by the fact that America was the first country that fought and died for the rights of all of its citizens to the point that we had a civil war over the issue.2 Freedom and equal rights for all are concepts that started in the US and have slowly crept around the world. Even after Britain and America had abolished slavery the African's were busy selling their brothers and sisters to other peoples for fun and profit. One of the biggest perpetrators of slavery in this world was and probably still is the people of Africa, although China has made huge inroads at being the biggest villain in the story.

This idea that Americans are arrogant stems from the fact that we love the world to the point of giving our lives and/or the lives of our fathers or spouses or sons or daughters for it and we feel that perhaps we have a little bit of a right to feel at home elsewhere and expect a little tolerance when we visit elsewhere.

Anyway, back to subject of consequences. Now there are people who are afraid that if the man they want to ask to fix things is elected we will see riots and other violence that has no place in the political process. There are blatant threats of this in public communications and even deaths threats against a presidential candidate which, by the way, are not being addressed or investigated as they would have been if they were against Obama while he was running for president.3

Anyway, this is what happens when people find the easiest path and are content to live it. Childhood is where the education needs to change. When I was a kid I knew the consequences of my actions and I could choose which consequence I wanted. In many cases it was to do as I was told and have the ability to go play or other activities or to be grounded and/or otherwise punished. The important point is that I was allowed to choose and I was taught that the result was something I chose when I chose my actions.

 

Children arguing with parents and adults is common place today. 

The modern child thinks it is okay to argue with a parent or adult. Today children are taught they can change consequences. As a result they cheating is okay as long as they don't get caught, they even think they can break the law and not be punished, afterall they see it on TV all of the time.

The difference is that the Lindsey Lohan's of this world have more money to stem off the results for a longer period of time and money influences other people who believe consequences should be subjective. Eventually, consequences will always find us.

Well, I believe I have expostulated long enough I hope that someday we as a people will rediscover our moral compasses, dust them off and find North again.