ANGER AND FEAR: MY FOLLOW-UP

I was recently told that my last entry sounded as if I were angry and fearful. I would like to address this comment with the following:

The point I was trying to make was I am amazed at the power of television and newspapers in this country. It has become the venue for people to share their opinions and switch around the facts to create a desired outcome. No longer do the masses think for themselves. I find this very frustrating: I admire those who share with me a differing opinion using substantial facts for lively and thought provoking conversation

I am sad that the past election was based for the majority of people purely on race and believe it did not bode well for those claiming we have reached a milestone in our countries history. It seems more a type of affirmative action and guilt cleansing. The secondary point I was trying to make was this: If I used the same titles for magazines, organizations and other forms of current media available today, substituting the word white for black, I would be censored and ridiculed; labeled a racist. Simply using the word “black” to describe another is construed as racial slurs. Where is the equality in this type of behavior? The equality is hidden from all who wish to expose it through the demands of political correctness.

I believe that this election was hijacked by a nation who has become dependent on television to instruct them on the ways of the world. This too, saddens me. Brainwashing should be done away with and not encouraged. However, advertising has shown us a new path to desensitization of the mind.

I am not fearful of the world and the changes that are taking place because there has always been evolution. Global warming does not concern me as much as the poisoning of both bodies and environment by doping up the world. It is the controlling of the masses through desensitization that causes me to pause in thoughtful wonderment of where we are heading.

I am definitely in favor of a smaller government and more personal responsibility. I am in favor of term limitations and smaller retirement settlements for those involved in both the senate and the house. I did not support the bailout. I believe in preventative health care first and foremost as the direction that health care should be taking. I believe that the pharmaceutical companies are doing a great job of covering up symptoms of real health care issues and medicine has become the number one business in this country making trustworty healthcare almost impossible. I believe that people have the right to speak their minds. I love that the United States was founded as an alternative to other forms of government and wonder at the logic of those who would turn us into a “World Order” and change us from our humble beginnings into the same format as those who cry out to us for help.

Spiritually I know there will never be world peace. Humans are social beings, therefore peace needs to flourish in our most sacred social settings; families. Yet think of the irony of promoting diversity within our families and then asking for cohesion. It is no different in the world. Diversity means to divide and that is what we are doing every day in this world: Creating diversity.

Thanks again for allowing me the opportunity to share my opinion.

MJ