From the time we are able to form sounds into words (language) as infants growing into children, questions are always asked by human beings. That is our nature. It is the answers to these questions that allow a child to begin filtering those responses into meaningful knowledge. This knowledge is more than just knowledge, it must be passed on from child to child, generation to generation. As this process transpires, language is built, knowledge is enhanced and common sense (the collective wisdom of humanity) grows. The baby-talk reaches our ears from that childs' voice and we are happy to be hearing these noises. But when an actual word is heard, we are amazed, pleased and proud. We finally recognize with our mind and sense of hearing that this child is learning language. We then brace ourselves for what comes next - the all-encompassing question......Why?
When the child asks this, the parents' minds begin to sift through the knowledge they have in attempts to answer that question. As we begin to answer Why? for the child, we realize that there is always more than one answer for Why?
How does the simple question of asking Why? ever change for the child? The natural curiousity all humans experience from birth is inherent to our nature, whether young or old. Does that natural curiousity get dampened by nature or nurture? Or is it from outside influences (society) that have convinced people that society (by definition today it has been created by our government) knows what is better for the child? The results of all this external influence on the family and children is that now, people who are asking Why? are not receiving the answers that satisfy the nature of the question, Why?
Most of the time, a single response to the question Why? simply doesn't satisfy the curiousity of the child. If the child receives an answer that doesn't resolve the question in the childs' mind, that question is asked over and over and over again. This is true up to the point the child either gives up because the question is not answered to that childs' satisfaction (human instinct) or the parents give up on the attempt to answer. The child perceives this and the natural curiousity is dampened. If numerous answers are provided to the question, Why?, the child will then reflect on all those different responses and begin questioning Why? all through life.
All clear-thinking people never stop asking Why? and are now wondering "How did our government arrive at this time in history where our elected politicians provide simple one-statement responses to our questions of Why?"
Why must we pay for healthcare for all?
Why must we pay for companies too big to fail?
Why must we accept the idealogy of one political party or the other?
Why have we accepted the lesser of the two evils when electing a person whom we expect will guide us through the next four years? Did his words convince all of us? Or was it due to the fact that he was provided with enough money to spread his word? That his message was full of hope and change which convinced some people that only he knew how to solve their life problems of water, food and shelter?
Why has our government reached the point where it believes it must always DO SOMETHING rather than leave us, we the people, alone to simply live our lives as we were intended by nature to do? Do laws allow us to live? Or must we constantly wonder which law we break each and everyday in our attempts to provide ourselves with our basic needs? Are we truly a nation of "Law and Order" where we now dampen our human instincts, yet promote the fallibility of human emotion so that now we only know how to live by rule of laws?
There are many, many questions that over the decades have never been answered satisfactorily to the people. Our time in history has proven this statement to be accurate and true.
Isn't it time to start asking the real question, Why? When this question can be answered, to the satisfaction of the majority of people, the time will be that we will move forward, as a nation, and our country will be ours again. By the people, for the people.
Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common sense. Show all posts
The Question That Isn't Being Answered
Common Sense and Human Instinct
Thomas Paine wrote about Common Sense many years ago – so long ago in fact, that we do not know of any one who was there at the time. The basic premise is that Common Sense applied appropriately by clear-thinking people will provide us by its very nature, the freest and best life possible. Thomas Paine understood what Common Sense truly is and wrote Common Sense. Our Founding Fathers understood his writings and wrote the Constitution. We as people lost much of our common sense somewhere in the course of our history. Now, we are all fighting for our very lives. But, we were warned.
We ask, "How did this happen to us?"
It was one law and one only, personal income tax. How does Common Sense apply to this American law?
No government that is by the people, for the people can ever place a monetary value on the work that any person or persons either can or can’t perform. The person sets that value and either accepts the offer of financial gains for the work performed and never the other way around. Common Sense and Human Instinct tells us this.
People have become so frustrated with their lives, never having time for what they know is important in life, but feeling helpless because they constantly feel like they cannot reach their goals. Generations past allowed our government to take a portion of our earnings, which we know is our time, called it a temporary tax and convinced the people that they were going to use it for our “general welfare”. I’m sure it all sounded pretty good to them. Common Sense simply didn't prevail. Those generations believed their politicians. We today are all now paying the price for that folly. We’re fighting for our very lives now that our government believes it can provide the best life (healthcare) to us.
Thomas Paine recognized Common Sense as the intellectual thread that binds humanity; our Founding Fathers used that Common Sense. They wrote our Constitution.
Thomas Paine understood the deep value of what that little phrase means – Common Sense. It’s a sense we all have and we share it as Americans. We’ve realized that instead of them doing what we tell them we want them to do, they are telling us what we need and that only they (our government) can give it to us. They are, however, just politicians and no one special. They have no inherent birthright. Education is simply knowledge and does not reflect wisdom. They may speak well to people, but they don’t speak for the people. We listen to them with great confidence at times and great trepidation at times. A few of us now believe their last hope has arrived and must rely for their very lives on our government. These few who are so confused, their lives are just a mess; they just want someone to help because they do need help. Instead of relying on family, friend, neighbour and community, they foolishly believe they can elect someone to give them that help. That’s very sad since it reflects lack of Common Sense.
However, we were warned by Thomas Paine even before our Constitution was written.
We ask, "How did this happen to us?"
It was one law and one only, personal income tax. How does Common Sense apply to this American law?
No government that is by the people, for the people can ever place a monetary value on the work that any person or persons either can or can’t perform. The person sets that value and either accepts the offer of financial gains for the work performed and never the other way around. Common Sense and Human Instinct tells us this.
People have become so frustrated with their lives, never having time for what they know is important in life, but feeling helpless because they constantly feel like they cannot reach their goals. Generations past allowed our government to take a portion of our earnings, which we know is our time, called it a temporary tax and convinced the people that they were going to use it for our “general welfare”. I’m sure it all sounded pretty good to them. Common Sense simply didn't prevail. Those generations believed their politicians. We today are all now paying the price for that folly. We’re fighting for our very lives now that our government believes it can provide the best life (healthcare) to us.
Thomas Paine recognized Common Sense as the intellectual thread that binds humanity; our Founding Fathers used that Common Sense. They wrote our Constitution.
Thomas Paine understood the deep value of what that little phrase means – Common Sense. It’s a sense we all have and we share it as Americans. We’ve realized that instead of them doing what we tell them we want them to do, they are telling us what we need and that only they (our government) can give it to us. They are, however, just politicians and no one special. They have no inherent birthright. Education is simply knowledge and does not reflect wisdom. They may speak well to people, but they don’t speak for the people. We listen to them with great confidence at times and great trepidation at times. A few of us now believe their last hope has arrived and must rely for their very lives on our government. These few who are so confused, their lives are just a mess; they just want someone to help because they do need help. Instead of relying on family, friend, neighbour and community, they foolishly believe they can elect someone to give them that help. That’s very sad since it reflects lack of Common Sense.
However, we were warned by Thomas Paine even before our Constitution was written.
Liberal Fascism - It's really here
Education… Just the word invokes thoughts of reading, writing, and of course, arithmetic. Not so long ago, children in school would have also included thoughts of play time as well. Now, most children do not exhibit positive enthusiasm when they are informed it’s time for “Back to School”. That enthusiasm is also lacking with the parents, although they stoically push that nagging feeling to the back of their minds and still continue to place their children, their trust, into our public school system.
Liberal Fascism…Sufficient to say, this term has actually been around a very, very long time, but not as the phrase we read today. Jonah Goldberg references that H.G. Wells was the first person in “modern” history to coin that particular phrase. Wells must have struggled with his life growing up. He suffered in pain over a broken leg at the young age of 8 (1874) as well as having parents who could not agree to disagree, being only human and having emotions as we all do. Once his parents were no longer together in life, Wells drifted here and there. A job here, an odd job there, but all of those jobs seem to be a form of manual-skilled labor. Wells, being the thinker he was yearned for an education. But, his education had already begun. He’d learned how to read when he had his broken leg. From that point in his life, he never stopped reading. In fact, his love for reading is what led to the great books he did write. His imaginations, fictions and other musings were based in solid life experiences. His perceptions were developed throughout his life as we all do as human beings.
His words (thoughts) played so well together, they flowed onto the pages. His writings were then read down through generations. Yet, instead of reading the thoughts of a brilliantly self-educated man, his words were no longer taken at face value. They were picked apart, piece by piece in a vain attempt at defining what was being read instead of the simple understanding that words are words. It only takes the human mind to interpret those words. But, the human mind tends to focus more on the meaning of the word, rather than the word itself. This limitation is the sole reason humans have common sense.
Common sense is the sum of knowledge gained by humanity over long periods of time.
Liberal fascism occurs when a person truly has no education.
Education is simply not just facts, numbers and additional information; it is what the mind does with all that knowledge. Too much knowledge without introspective human thought is total lack of wisdom. Knowledge is only gained when the age of reasoning occurs, but reason only prevails with knowledge. If the two do not balance, we have a lot of people that will speak and reference others writings (thoughts) as having total validity and will live their own lives based on those assumptions. Yet, even those without what we now call education, they tend to live simpler, self-sufficient lives without all the added information that they simply cannot fit in their own lives.
First, we must understand education. Can it be measured by whether a child retains certain dates and times of historic events? Is it how that child learns the method to solve some mathematical equation? Or is it the child learning to apply that knowledge of dates and time when a past event transpired, which then allows that child to understand it in the context of the present? If that is education, then how can we say that we haven’t been failing our young children for a very long time?
My parents, other family members all taught me what a family is, what it means to have friends and to keep those you love in your life. It was my mother, who loved me, that taught me to read before I ever attended 1st grade in a public school back in 1966. From the time I grasped what the written words could tell me, I never looked back at any point in my life and told myself, I’ve failed. Not by my standards, ever.
That is the true quality of a good, solid and well-rounded education. Once those values are taught to children, they will never lose this for the rest of their lives. It never left me, no matter what I was able to do, or not do in my life.
Can these values and knowledge truly be taught in a liberal fascist society? Of course not. That requires a free society that allows its parents to be parents. A free society will be able to exactly pinpoint a fault in the education system. That fault could then be resolved, without legislation that attempts to promote, but fails. If our children are being educated in a free society, how is it that there are more and more children who are truly failing, then falling through the cracks in our society? Liberal fascism?
What is it our children are being taught then through the public school system? Do we want them to gain knowledge that allows us as humans to understand other people, communicate with other people and to discuss the very words we read? Or, do we leave even more of them behind to languish in the environment they live in because well-intentioned people (liberal fascists/progressives) believe they have the solution to poverty? Yes, a good education results in success.
Poverty levels, a governments’ measure of success or failure, have only been increased by our very own government. I’ve lived below “the poverty line” a few times in my life, but never, ever felt like I was in poverty. Did Wells? Lack of adequate finances is simply not poverty. The working poor-class becomes poverty-stricken when there is no hope of overcoming the frustration and despair of living in America without real education. Liberal fascism, anyone?
These principles simply cannot ever be taught by anyone other than family, friends and community. If we must ask that basic question regarding our childrens’ education, this is the only question that must be asked and answered. The government has made its futile attempts at solutions, but is failing and will continue miserably in its attempts to accomplish those goals. The reason is simple and truthful. The government may be made up of people, but it’s been far too long that it hasn’t been a government by the people, for the people. The liberal fascism that has bubbled below the surface for literally decades is now being revealed. That fact is as true as knowing the air I breathe keeps me alive. Impossible standards now apply since those standards do not address the variance of the individual as they attempt to learn through the current “liberally fascistic” teaching process. The result will be catastrophic. This lack of educated people will actually escalate due in large part to the legislation called “No Child Left Behind”. It’s been made to all sound very good and necessary for America, but values and principles simply cannot be legislated. The birth of liberal fascism begins at some point in any free society and our version of fascism is already getting older.
Jonah Goldberg made this statement recently in response to some of the “Nazi” rhetoric swirling in the media currently. He was referring to liberal fascism:
“That sort of system could seduce Americans into becoming chestless subjects of the State in exchange for bottomless self-gratification and liberation from the necessity of adult decision-making.”
Link
How can any person with common sense and human instinct, not truly understand that liberal fascism has already gained control of the education of our young peoples’ minds?
“I will never let my schooling interfere with my education” – Mark Twain
Liberal Fascism…Sufficient to say, this term has actually been around a very, very long time, but not as the phrase we read today. Jonah Goldberg references that H.G. Wells was the first person in “modern” history to coin that particular phrase. Wells must have struggled with his life growing up. He suffered in pain over a broken leg at the young age of 8 (1874) as well as having parents who could not agree to disagree, being only human and having emotions as we all do. Once his parents were no longer together in life, Wells drifted here and there. A job here, an odd job there, but all of those jobs seem to be a form of manual-skilled labor. Wells, being the thinker he was yearned for an education. But, his education had already begun. He’d learned how to read when he had his broken leg. From that point in his life, he never stopped reading. In fact, his love for reading is what led to the great books he did write. His imaginations, fictions and other musings were based in solid life experiences. His perceptions were developed throughout his life as we all do as human beings.His words (thoughts) played so well together, they flowed onto the pages. His writings were then read down through generations. Yet, instead of reading the thoughts of a brilliantly self-educated man, his words were no longer taken at face value. They were picked apart, piece by piece in a vain attempt at defining what was being read instead of the simple understanding that words are words. It only takes the human mind to interpret those words. But, the human mind tends to focus more on the meaning of the word, rather than the word itself. This limitation is the sole reason humans have common sense.
Common sense is the sum of knowledge gained by humanity over long periods of time.
Liberal fascism occurs when a person truly has no education.
Education is simply not just facts, numbers and additional information; it is what the mind does with all that knowledge. Too much knowledge without introspective human thought is total lack of wisdom. Knowledge is only gained when the age of reasoning occurs, but reason only prevails with knowledge. If the two do not balance, we have a lot of people that will speak and reference others writings (thoughts) as having total validity and will live their own lives based on those assumptions. Yet, even those without what we now call education, they tend to live simpler, self-sufficient lives without all the added information that they simply cannot fit in their own lives.
First, we must understand education. Can it be measured by whether a child retains certain dates and times of historic events? Is it how that child learns the method to solve some mathematical equation? Or is it the child learning to apply that knowledge of dates and time when a past event transpired, which then allows that child to understand it in the context of the present? If that is education, then how can we say that we haven’t been failing our young children for a very long time?
My parents, other family members all taught me what a family is, what it means to have friends and to keep those you love in your life. It was my mother, who loved me, that taught me to read before I ever attended 1st grade in a public school back in 1966. From the time I grasped what the written words could tell me, I never looked back at any point in my life and told myself, I’ve failed. Not by my standards, ever.
That is the true quality of a good, solid and well-rounded education. Once those values are taught to children, they will never lose this for the rest of their lives. It never left me, no matter what I was able to do, or not do in my life.
Can these values and knowledge truly be taught in a liberal fascist society? Of course not. That requires a free society that allows its parents to be parents. A free society will be able to exactly pinpoint a fault in the education system. That fault could then be resolved, without legislation that attempts to promote, but fails. If our children are being educated in a free society, how is it that there are more and more children who are truly failing, then falling through the cracks in our society? Liberal fascism?
What is it our children are being taught then through the public school system? Do we want them to gain knowledge that allows us as humans to understand other people, communicate with other people and to discuss the very words we read? Or, do we leave even more of them behind to languish in the environment they live in because well-intentioned people (liberal fascists/progressives) believe they have the solution to poverty? Yes, a good education results in success.
Poverty levels, a governments’ measure of success or failure, have only been increased by our very own government. I’ve lived below “the poverty line” a few times in my life, but never, ever felt like I was in poverty. Did Wells? Lack of adequate finances is simply not poverty. The working poor-class becomes poverty-stricken when there is no hope of overcoming the frustration and despair of living in America without real education. Liberal fascism, anyone?
These principles simply cannot ever be taught by anyone other than family, friends and community. If we must ask that basic question regarding our childrens’ education, this is the only question that must be asked and answered. The government has made its futile attempts at solutions, but is failing and will continue miserably in its attempts to accomplish those goals. The reason is simple and truthful. The government may be made up of people, but it’s been far too long that it hasn’t been a government by the people, for the people. The liberal fascism that has bubbled below the surface for literally decades is now being revealed. That fact is as true as knowing the air I breathe keeps me alive. Impossible standards now apply since those standards do not address the variance of the individual as they attempt to learn through the current “liberally fascistic” teaching process. The result will be catastrophic. This lack of educated people will actually escalate due in large part to the legislation called “No Child Left Behind”. It’s been made to all sound very good and necessary for America, but values and principles simply cannot be legislated. The birth of liberal fascism begins at some point in any free society and our version of fascism is already getting older.
Jonah Goldberg made this statement recently in response to some of the “Nazi” rhetoric swirling in the media currently. He was referring to liberal fascism:
“That sort of system could seduce Americans into becoming chestless subjects of the State in exchange for bottomless self-gratification and liberation from the necessity of adult decision-making.”
Link
How can any person with common sense and human instinct, not truly understand that liberal fascism has already gained control of the education of our young peoples’ minds?
“I will never let my schooling interfere with my education” – Mark Twain
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