House of Eratosthenes

Just arrived in my e-mail, again, this time from the Brother-In-Law. In trying to find a source, which is an effort that has yet to bear fruit, I came to find out Allen West had also been engaged in the same search.

The word conundrum is defined as a complex problem that is often puzzling or confusing. Here are six conundrums of our contemporary United States of America:

1. America is capitalist and greedy – yet almost half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet politicians (mostly progressive socialists) claim they want America to become more like those other countries.

And consider these following three observations about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:

1. We are advised not to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are admonished to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works, as we see the liberal progressives already jumping on the tragedy from Santa Barbara California. So what about the three victims who were stabbed to death, should we ban knives?

2. We constantly hear about how Social Security is running out of money. How come we never hear about welfare or food stamps on the verge of running out of money? Maybe the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t. It is a simple case of printing money for political bribery and extortion.

3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, giving no pay raises for our military and cutting our forces to a level lower than before WWII, but are expanding and increasing the benefits to illegal aliens? It is all about pandering for votes – and who cares about national security or veterans dying at the hands of their own Veterans Administration?

This morning I was reviewing some old e-mails, and discovered a comment thread I’d abandoned last month over on the Hello Kitty of Blogging continued to smolder after my departure. I had exited the conversation and re-directed my attention to more promising tasks, after one of those “moderate not a liberal” types had questioned my dismissal, as a model of the way we want things to be in this country, of the city of Detroit. Her rebuttal had something to do with Detroit being quite nice. She and her friends leaped to the conclusion that I must be entirely unacquainted with Detroit. On my way out, I decided to just let that one go, although it is in fact untrue; I’ve seen the place up close. It’s a warning to the rest of us, more than anything else.

I can resolve some of these conundrums: #5 explains #4 and #6. People gain a sense of direction out of a perceived need for having a sense of direction; you want to know where the waterfall is, when you gather the impression that your boat is becoming perilously close. By the same token, nothing anesthetizes against a sense of direction like a decent standard of living. What statement manifests an anesthetized sense of direction, like “We wanna be like Detroit”?

The problem with this nowadays is people don’t think they’re in that situation. They look at their hourly wages or their annual gross, and count themselves as “middle class” or “poor.” But in relation to the rest of the world, they’re not poor. When it comes to getting hold of the things they want & need from day to day, or hour to hour, they’re not poor. In fact, they’re “rich” enough that they feel like they can screw around with reality a little bit.

I’ve spoken with them.

Them: “Elizabeth Warren wins elections because she hears the voice of the little people, like us.”

Me: “If she wins elections because little people vote for her, then all politicians like her are always going to want more of these ‘little people’.”

Them: “Hmm hey what? Me no understand.”

When you can’t tell the difference between people fixing something and people breaking something, you are very far gone.

Elizabeth Warren wins elections because she tells the left exactly what it wants to hear.
- Rich Fader | 01/18/2015 @ 22:04

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