Each day I either hear or see something about decisions
being made by narrow minded people that pound home the fact that our country
and “core-principles” are really in jeopardy The latest was a school in
Michigan that has banned kids play “tag” or running in “packs”as they called it.
Their reasons are that it could be harmful to other children and increase the
actions of pushing and shoving!
First it was dodge-ball, then kick ball and now
tag. I guess when kids go out for recess to burn off a little pent-up energy
they should just stand in place at safe distances from each other or perhaps
just play virtual tag?… you see its games like tag that can be linked to future
acts of violence and terrorism with little Johnny or sweet little Susie!
Society must make an active stand now to curb these games to prevent future catastrophes.
Now when we were kids, we played these games and even had
toy guns to play army so we could emulate our favorite movie or TV Heroes. We even watched shows like Combat with Vic
Morrow or Rat Patrol which praised the exploits of our WWII veterans. We played
sports on the street and yes we got a few scrapes and bruises but to my
knowledge I don’t think that it produced a more violent society. What it did
produce was a generation that understood that not everything was equal and
fair. There were winners and losers and we learned the emotional effects of
being on either side from one time to another. We learned the “rules of
engagement” of how to interact with each other and the competitive nature of
society that would provide life’s lessons for the future. All of which were in
line with what makes America well you know America!
But now these core values are under attack. Instead of
letting kids be kids to learn the ways of the world, we want to alter their
behaviors such that we can manufacture the outcomes of social events to ensure
that “everything is fair”. We no longer encourage those with gifts to excel if it means that that they might come out
ahead of others, no instead we’ll slow them down or alter the rules so that
those of less talent can also “win” so as their fragile little feelings stay
intact. The everybody “gets a trophy” mentality is in full swing.
It’s not what
we did or how we got there but that everybody “feels” good.
Now this might seem
harmless on the soccer field or school yard when the participants are 7 years
old but what it is really doing is eroding the core foundation of what has made
Americans exceptional at a very young age and in the process giving more power
to “THE PROCESS” while limiting individual accountability. Because you see
little Johnny or Susie eventually become adults and have gone their whole lives
thinking that all they have to do is show up and they’ll be rewarded for it.
Because all they've had to be is nice and stay within the barriers of the group
fearful of taking steps out of line to excel as it may overshadow little Timmy
and damage his self esteem.
So on a broader scale what is this really doing? We’re teaching
our kids, the future generations of our country to be just Vanilla. But coming
out of the other side of the "proverbial mouth" is a non-stop flow of criticism
about how we are not accepting of diversity and need to do more. Well which way
is it? Everybody is the same or everybody is different? I guess the ruling
class gets to decide on when and where to apply the rules, as they seem to be
ever changing to conveniently fit into the drama of the day.
In a time when children are being thrown out of school because they drew a picture of a gun or some stick figures that could be interpreted as acting violently the absurd has become the surreal!
However there is nothing done or said about the way too real
graphic violence is evident in video games. Games that encourage lawlessness
and portray a casual approach to killing. Perhaps it’s this exposure rather
than playground games that could be targeted as the reason that other
“children” shoot up schools and movie theaters with unfazed numbness? If the liberals have their way we’ll all be just a society
of equals. We’ll all be issued our “olive-drab” jumpsuits and bamboo flip-flops
and obediently stand in line to worship the powers that be. Oh does that sound
familiar…China, N. Korea, Cuba…what’s the common denominator? A liberal,
socialist, communist agenda that has failed throughout history!
Yet the
progressives in this country seek to move closer and closer to this type of
grand utopia. They see it as having the freedoms they seek because now everyone
will be given a chance to be on even footing, but the reality is that with
every step we take in this direction we are imprisoning ourselves by giving up
our freedoms to be individuals to the state.
Maybe we’ll become the “non-violent” society portrayed in the movie Demolition Man where we can get fined for doing and saying bad things…"violation of the Verbal Morality Statute" Or maybe we'll wake up and get some "testicular fortitude" and fight to keep being how we are...
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