Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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Daphne is letting loose once again, and making it look easy.
A silent tide is sweeping across the country among family men of a certain age. Men who’ve decided that they are done living on the government’s terms, shrugging off the tight-fitting version of suburban success with an ease they never thought possible. They’re walking off the reservation on their own terms, without anyone taking slightest bit of notice.
These men don’t show up at Tea Party rallies, march on Washington or join militias. They go to work, love their wives, pay their never-ending taxes, fees, surcharges and diligently raise the next responsible generation. Most people would call these solid men our nation’s backbone.
Many have served our country, in war zones, with distinguished honor. They gladly earn their bread while supporting complete strangers who don’t, can’t or won’t work. They span the spectrum from blue collar workers to successful entrepreneurs. A number of these good men have been sniffing the wind for the past two years and they’re calling it a day. Bolt holes are being created, money is being transferred out of the market and into solid commodities, debt load is being reduced with an eye towards further economic collapse. Politics have become meaningless to this breed, they’re done, disgusted, fed up with whole cesspool. These men are looking at American life in a whole new way.
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Flying under the radar, getting out from under the yoke, becoming free men, rather than shackled dogs or besuited grey ghosts, is the juice fueling their passion. These men don’t want to argue politics and they have no interest in fighting, not anymore.These men have decided that what they want most of all, is to finally start living.
It is, perhaps, impossible to definitively determine how many societies have crumbled this way. Someone gets the bright idea to improve things and make them kinder and more compassionate, by making them kinder and more compassionate. As in, force some class of schmucks to do something they otherwise would not do. And then they do it again and do it again…after awhile, nobody bothers to even begin to explain how this next incremental erosion of freedom is supposed to solve the stated problem. We just do it a few more times. And then, finally, lo and behold we do build a super advanced society that works for “everyone.” But by this time we become well-practiced in re-defining “everyone” to mean something besides “everyone.” We re-define it to cover non-productive people, who don’t have jobs, don’t want jobs, or have jobs that cannot and do not produce anything of value to anybody. We create a society that works for them, and to hell with those other people, the people who keep it all running.
So our super-magical perfect society leaves them…before they leave it.
It isn’t the first time we’ve been down this road. Far from it.
Atlas Shrugged is opening on April 15. Have you demanded that it be shown in your zip code yet?
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I went and demanded. Looks like as of now I have to drive about 100 miles to see it.
That’s apparently a year-old post by Daphne. I like the sentiment.
But I would object to the idea that “The Tea Party” is controlled by anybody. Partially because, contrary to what a couple of bigger organizations using that name (and who are at least marginally in the same mindset) would like you to think.
I’m a leader in our local Tea Party group. I don’t know anybody in any of those bigger organizations. We certainly don’t get any money from them. Our money comes from cash donations we as individuals leave in a bag as we leave, and it goes in our bank account. There are several other groups here in Mid Mo that are the same way.
Last meeting we had our local state representative at our meeting. A Democrat. He agrees with us on some things. We’re 180 degrees apart on some others.
Now maybe this is because we started out as a 9/12 group at Glenn Beck’s suggestion — where principles and values come first. I don’t know. Could be.
But we haven’t been hijacked by anybody.
We’re here to learn and to learn to teach, and to — basically evangelize American principles to our families, friends, and anyone who will listen. This HAS to happen from the bottom up. As someone said, Barack Obama isn’t the problem. We can survive his presidency. What we can’t survive is an electorate that will elect him and others like him.
I hope Daphne’s right about the rest of it. Haven’t seen a whole lot of evidence of it, but I hope it’s happening all the same.
- philmon | 04/05/2011 @ 09:25That first paragraph got a little squirrley. It should read…
- philmon | 04/05/2011 @ 09:31Ah yea…no. Living ones life, hoping that everything will mysteriously work itself out by ignoring the troubles of our country is exactly how where got to where we are today. Which includes the wars those men had to go and fight. And if all goes according to their brilliant plans, their kids and grandchildren will be fighting too.
Living in a hole doesn’t change a thing, it doesn’t get anyone elected, it doesn’t stop the encroachments upon our liberties.
This is the embodiment of Liberalism, just doing what FEELS good. What people are doing by attending Tea Party/912er rallies or marching on DC or organizing to get people elected who will actually make a difference is HARD WORK. Does it take too much imagination to realize those folks would rather be doing something else? But what Daphne describes is the ole hippie “drop out” mentality, the “screw reality” mantra and the lazy “it doesn’t matter, man, because nothing will ever change”, “life sucks, dude, fuck it, I’m out’a here. I’m going to the commune” BS of days gone by. How’d that work out for them?
Thankfully our founding fathers weren’t like these men. And thankfully I’ve never once meet anyone like which is described in the article. Quite the contrary actually.
- tim | 04/06/2011 @ 09:33