So, here it is. I haven't posted in a month or more. My period of non-posting started when I because a blogger adulterer, opening a second blog: bethanyvp.blogspot.com - a gimmick which went over very well and perhaps helped get me elected student council vice president at BBC. But with the election over, I neglected to come back here to my first love, and thus my blogging was non-existent for awhile.
But not anymore. I have been thinking of the following topics as of late:
- How Henry Clay should have been president.
- How we never would have been able to win WWII in today's culture.
- How it sucks that an entire generation of my peers cannot bring themselves to respect the office of POTUS.
- How to build a better mousetrap.
- How many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll lollipop (1... 2... 3! 3. Stupid Owl.)
So I imagine all you out there in bloggerland will be expectantly awaiting this blog to be back up and running. Let's just say my last paper of the year is due at 2:30 on Thursday and my next computer lab shift is at 4:00 on Thursday. You can connect the dots from there, I'm sure.
Until then...
I think that points two and three on that list are very closely related.
ReplyDeleteUp to the mid-60's, there was a great deal of respect for the people in positions of authority. To most, these seats of power came with some degree of infallibility, "I don't agree, but he is the ____ and I'm just a lowly _____, so I guess he must know something I don't."
People today seem to think that they can get all the information that the president can through their friendly local politi-blogger, and that there are no other factors to any given decision outside what they read on CNN.
This has spawned an entire nation of not just armchair generals, but armchair politicians as well. These people think that they could do a much better job running the country, and still have time for softball in the afternoon, without ever thinking that, 'Hey, maybe there are things going on that I don't see!'
I am concerned that this will and has resulted in a state were politicians are reviled instead of revered. This means that the smart, thoughtful people that our country needs in office in order to survive will never get there, because the office is not worth the grief that they will be forced to endure for it.
Instead, you end up with a congress of career blowhards and activists, which in turn, do nothing more than breed public contempt.
Rinse, repeat...
Josh... you completely stole the thunder of the post I had brewing tying these two ideas. Or perhaps you put a wind in my sails. We'll see.
ReplyDeleteI think you gave our generation a little too much credit, however: I highly doubt that many of us even "read" CNN when there are convenient 10-second blurbs to completely sum up the relevant geopolitical climate of the world at the top of any given hour of Headline News.
Happy 229th birthday to Henry Clay, April 12, 1777.
ReplyDeleteGlad to know I can still be of service, and that my brain hasn't yet taken to spewing out innane babble all of the time...
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