A RANT – July 4, 2008

As the title says… It’s way past time for a change…

I used to be proud to be an American. I still am, but… It’s clear we’ve lost our grip. We’ve been led astray by a President who doesn’t deserve the capitalization and an administration that has dramatically changed the world’s perception of America from “Good Guys” to “Bad Guys” in eight not so short years.

Do we blame it on Bush? We have only ourselves to blame. After all, we voted him in – sort of. Last Presidential election 62 million people voted. There are about 200 million eligible voters in the U.S. Where were those 138 million other guys and gals on that day? Too busy watching TV?

We are losing our integrity as a nation because we are losing our integrity as a people. See: The deplorable state of reality television. See: Rampant cheating in sports. See: A nation of fat people. See: A nation of debtors and lazy over spenders. See: A nation at war. I could go on, but you get the picture. You live in the picture.

What strikes me as most absurd and perhaps indicative of the level of thought in America today is our ridiculous fascination and admiration of actors and celebrities. We put these people on pedestals as if they were authorities on life to be reckoned with. How completely confused of us!

Are we so blind as to think that because an actor plays a heroic role or a brilliant scientist in a movie, that he is actually heroic or brilliant in real life?  Why do we listen to these people on the subjects of health care, politics, etc.? What is the fascination with what they wear, who they screw, what they think? We, as a nation, have made actors our nobility. How absurd! (Of course, I’m not sure that England’s or Europe’s nobility are that much better.)

America! Wake up! Actors are good at pretending!That’s what they do, — pretend! Yes, it’s a talent and a skill, but let’s stop being duped – it’s a pretense, not reality. Celebrities are the greatest pretenders of them all! These are the people we admire and fawn over as a nation. No wonder we voted in our present leader.

Are we so shallow that we place physical beauty at the top of the charts? Plastic boobs and reconstructed faces – one of the saddest images of an insipid America. It is no wonder that the rest of the world laughs at us, or hates us for the way we think and live.

America used to stand for something good and true, the land of opportunity. America was a light unto the world. America was hope, not just for Americans, but for all the world. All now in the past tense.

So what do we do about it?

We become inspired and rise above this disgraceful thinking. We do everything we can in life to raise the standard of America back up again. We pray. We vote and we vote smart – not for the party, but for the integrity and intelligence of the woman or man. We stay abreast of the times and the issues and do something positive about them daily, weekly, monthly.

We raise our own personal standards of living and disallow trash, the fraudulence of materialism and frivolous lust. We become better people through greater spiritual insight, not the “almighty” buck. We become inspired human beings and live noble lives by the minute, by the hour, by the day. We live in a way that others around us cannot help but gravitate to us and our way of living because they see the clarity of truth in our lives. In short, we live truthfully – full of truth.

We rebuild America just as our forefathers built this nation originally – we build on the “self evident” truths that all men are created equal. This means to me at this moment that all Americans have equal responsibility to rebuild – that all Americans are equally endowed to be a better American, a better man and woman. The responsibility falls equally upon all of us, not on an Obama or McCain. It falls on me. It falls on you.

Peter

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