Skynet Takes Two More Pawns

Since when have we become a country that solely relies on the government rules and standards to control our lives?  Where did we stop thinking for ourselves and start relying on what television and government propaganda have deemed as “politically correct”?  Where did we stop being a community and start letting the government laws and stipulations make our choices and decisions for us?

The country has become lazy.  It’s so lazy and concerned with issues that concede very little direct affect on us, that it’s given up many of it’s rights to think freely.  Unfortunately, the majority of this country has turned into these mindless flesh eating creatures that has decided it’s much easier for TV and the government dictate what happens in their lives and what they think.  If they don’t vote, or don’t pay attention to politics they don’t have to assume any responsibility for the officials elected.  If the grandparents or day cares are raising their children it won’t be their fault that their children are a plague to society.  If we rely on machines instead of people, it makes our lazy lives that much easier.  These people have become the demise of this great nation and have given Skynet a few moves that much closer to Check Mate.

I’m no tree hugging hippie.  In fact, I think all the time and money wasted on Global Warming is ludicrous.  I would also add the prevention and punishment for prostitution, drug abuse, and gun control.  I believe each and every one of these issues are problems and need to be regulated but that simply cannot be controlled or stopped.  We should all be aware of the environment and do what we can to protect our world, but to preach it as such an imminent threat to our society is shameful.  We many more pressing issues inside our homes.  The issues of drug abuse, prostitution, and illegal weapons in this particular country comes from adults that start off as children.  The focus should be on homes and communities.  These simply do not exist anymore.  Both parents work and nobodies home for the kids.  The schools and baby sitter’s become the main form of influence in the child’s life and before long their peers, and by the time they are in trouble, the blame is placed on the school, other kids, and anything but where the actual issue has stemmed.  If the schools are there to determine everything for your child’s future, then by proxy the government is.  They have more power than anyone can imagine, and for those teachers and administrators to retain that power they must bow down to the almighty government that makes every single one of it’s rules and decisions out for it.

I for one, am not okay with the government deciding what is best for my child or what is best for my neighborhood.  As a parent I know my children better than anyone on this planet, and being educated and not one of the fleshing eating zombies, am attune and aware to their needs.  As an intelligent woman who cares about the community and the laws and things that happen in my city, I don’t think the government at large is going to understand what the city needs more than it’s residents who do more than look at spreadsheets and bar graphs, because that’s all we are to them.

I cannot take another second of the government controlling my life in places it has no business in being.  I can no longer stand by idly while others who are complacent in their “helplessness” allow this to continue.  It is only a matter of time before even more laws and rules begin to regulate our private homes and lives.  People need to get off their self absorbed asses and start thinking about things more important than their petty material things.  Life is much bigger than that, and it will be too late to complain about it after you have no more choices.

Tag is Outlawed!

That’s right.  In a time where keeping score is no longer necessary and everyone makes the team in Little League, and to help harbor the ”gentle” psych of children, political correctness has now expanded to recess.  Dodgeball has been eliminated from schools all over because it’s considered  too violent, but the reason behind Tag being banned from some Massachusetts schools is because some kids will feel left out?  Who are we kidding?  It’s no wonder kids these days are so reliant on their parents!  It’s no wonder it’s completely acceptable to move back home or stay there until the age of thirty.  It’s no shock grandparents and daycare’s are predominantly raising the children of today instead of the parents who are too busy focusing on their careers or still going to the bar every weekend because they still have the mentality of an adolescent.  The word of the decade is “coddle.”

This generation and some following after have lost the ability to think for themselves.  No one has a voice anymore, because there is nothing but grown up children walking around looking to their parents for direction, or what the politically correct news says they should think instead of doing it for themselves.  Why has this happened?  Because of banning games like tag.  Because of forgetting to keep score.  it sounds trite, but think about it.  In attempting to shelter kids and soften them instead of teaching them to be vigorous independent thinkers and preparing them for the real world, we are molding a sense of personality that requires them to be dependent and afraid.  This epidemic starts at a young age when the morals and ideals about life and instilled in children, and coddling at a young age does not prepare them for the adult world that is cutthroat.

It’s okay to protect our children.  It’s our nature, but this is nearly abuse in my opinion.  The adults of today need to grow up and stop relying on their parents for everything because they are modeling that same behavior to their children who in a world where “tag” is an unnacceptable game, they need to strong voice and strong image to show them how to be independant.  Yes, how to fight!  How to defend yourself.  How to perservere!  It says a lot more to say keeping a score is wrong, than trying to win the game.  Try to win.  A healthy competiveness is good.  You need that in school and college and life to succeed.

Here is the article I read from the Los Angelas Times that evoked this rant.  Life is getting more and more outrageous everyday.  Those that can’t or don’t think for themselves are afraid of those that do, and unfortunately are too lazy because they aren’t competitive enough to stand up and think for themselves.  When my kids are old enough the first movie I’m going to sit them down to watch is Dead Poets Society and show them what true inspiration and independence and creativity is about.  God, by then I may be one of those crazy hippies that’s homeschooling.  At least then, they’ll get to play normal children’s games.

In the words of Maynard Keenan James:

Think for yourself, question authority.

Kwame Devours Detroit

I was browsing a friends webpage today and came across an article he wrote on Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of our lovely city Detroit.  For many years Detroit has focused on rebirthing the city, and building from the self-destruction it’s suffered over the last many years.  Since Kwame has become an elected official the upward direction the city had taken on has turned it into a joke, and unfortunately, though reasonably, fed to the already negative aversion with the city of Detroit.  With a man playing “gangsta” and “high roller” as it’s leader, how is the rest of the unknowing world supposed to react?  His reign of terror and destruction will soon come to an end, but unfortunately the citizens of Detroit are going to be left to pick up the pieces and suffer many more years of the stereotypes Kwame enforced. 

Hopefully someday the rest of the country will get to see the city I see.  The heart and soul of it.  The real grit of a working class infrastructure that lives and breathes.  You might be right when you talk down about the city of Detroit, but no real Detroiter is ever going to sit back and take it lightly.  For now, I’m going to sit back and wait for the atrocity that is Kwame to be removed and hope against hope we have someone who cares about the city take his pompous place.

Take a look at Kwame’s many accomplishment over his time spent as Detroit Mayor here.