Friday, November 16, 2007

Personal - #501 - #61 - Another "Inconvenient Truth"....

What should people be really concerned about?
What should people be really interested in?

The terrorists (the Jihads, the Radicals, the Islamic Fascists, etc.) want to kill us!!! They want an end to the world’s “industrial revolution” as we know them!
Instead, we have Brittany Spears, Immigration reform, Congressional oversights, How our decision making process works, The coming election, The Iraq war, etc…. Sure, some of these are important, but “to kill us”?

What greater issue is there “but to kill us!”?

Is the great population so misinformed that they don’t see this as an issue of the greatest importance?
Is the fact that they don’t feel that they have “any” input? Does voting do anything about our National foreign policy? Does war and killing so disgust the American people that they won’t even discuss it?

Is there any solution???

Do we wait for “revolution”? This is where the uninformed mob hits the streets and the minority of “rulers” (legislators) and the highly paid and trained military fight to gain control?

Is this our future?

How do we have rational discussion?
How do we become “educated”?
What sources do we have to “inform” us?

Isn’t this the question?

Do the schools teach us to discuss rather than merely “express our opinion”?
Do ordinary people “discuss” rather than “give their opinion”?
Is this a matter of “education”, … “real” Education?

Why don’t ordinary people get involved….at least, “intellectually”?
What should make the teenagers more interested? …. (after all, they’re going to pay!)
Is it the job of the President to make the country more aware of it’s predicament with out giving the enemies a “game plan”? Is the current administration doing its job?
Who is going to change this?
Will a newly elected administration do this? … Will it also say how its going to improve the situation, or doesn’t it have a solution either?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think that giving an opinion is the first step to a discussion. As you have pointed out in other insights that there is no real answer to the problems that seems to plague America. Who knows with certainty there is a factual and truthful basis for any argument for any belief?
When I walk down the street I see only people but sometimes I see someone as a threat to my safety. With no knowledge of him or her but purely on an instinctual level i do not trust this person and will make sure not to make any sort of contact with them. I cannot justify my awareness, it just is.
This is human nature and at times it makes no sense. but this seems to be the way we humans have developed. Right or wrong it's human nature and very difficult to change.
I wish there was a way to change this but I am not smart enough to come up with any ideas for tackling an enormous problem.