The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Wednesday, August 8, 2007




Save the Internet: Tell Your Story

puzzled but not powerless

I just read on Towleroad.com that the New York subways are having flooding issues because of a storm that moved through there his morning. In his post Andy Towle says "God help us all if we get hit by a hurricane."

This is what puzzles me. Why does God have to help us? What is preventing us from helping ourselves? Other than us I mean.

Yes, infrastructure fixes like flooding prevention in the subways would have to be legislated, but if the people stopped thinking with a victim mentality and started actively letting their elected officials know that they intend to have these things and not be extorted by the popular fear tactics of higher taxes and increased terror risk, the most popular methods of not giving us what we need and want as taxpayers, and that we'll elect others who will give us those things if they don't is absolutely the only thing that will get this system out of the rut that it is in.

We must start thinking with our brains, and not living with the fear in our guts that these "politicians" are preying on nowadays. We actually do have the power, and if we'd stood up in 2000 and put a stop to the foolishness over the Presidential election we'd not likely be in Iraq today and we may even have avoided 9/11!

But no! We're all victims, living in a society that is totally out of our control and we just go along with the tide like sheep, who are incapable of shaping our own destiny. This is absolutely not what the founders intended.

We have to stand up and make our voices heard, we have to take the risk that we're the loud-mouthed crazies that speak our minds in public and sometimes embarrass ourselves by attracting the attention that is necessary to mobilize people against the decay and neglect of our country.

We also need to ask ourselves why this is happening. Is our education system failing so badly that we don't teach our students that they have not only the right, but the duty to stand up and speak out against the kinds of things that are happening to our country? That they must speak out against injustice, even if no one seems to be listening. Someone somewhere will hear and the more we speak the more people will hear.

Rome is burning folks! Let's put down the fiddles and get to work putting out the fires and then trying to figure out ways to not only fix the problems, but to prevent some of them from happening again.

It's necessary and it's our responsibility.