Decades ago these numerous deaths and scandals would have destroyed a presidency. Today comedy segments are made showing a guy with a mic asking random people who the VP is. The litte embarrassment these people feel when they do not know simple current events just shock me. I have never been a man to not "Know". I have been ridiculed and harassed for being a know it all. What could a person be doing that they could not take half an hour to listen or read the news online and know the headlines.
We live in a self-centered introverted society. To our down fall technology is becoming our friend and our god. Even today I was shocked that the manager of the local coffee shop where I write this blog remembered my name. "Hey Arnaldo". Was all she said and I was startled. Even as extroverted as I am for someone to be personal in that way seemed unusual almost intrusive, but it warmed me to be recognized. How little contact does a person have to have to make themselves the center of their lives and consider no others?
Little is shocking but everything is offensive. For a people that have so little concern for what happens to our fellow human beings we are really stinking touchy. Don't like gay rights, you're a homophobe. Don't support gun control, you're a domestic terrorist. Don't support abortion, you hate women. Today if you disagree your idea is not flawed it's evil. We have become islands unto ourselves.
The acts of tyranny will continue because half of our country is too selfish to care anymore. The stress from the economic downturn has put us in survival mode and we running around like a disbanded pack of animals. Until we understand that who we were as a people, that our original values needed no evolution, that being conservative or "Real" can mean being modern also; we will be taken advantage of time and time again.
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