Something I have been thinking about of late...the content within the declaration of independence...and how that it is just as applicable today as it was then...and the various similarities between what was pressing points back then compared to pressing points of today's dissatisfaction with the current regime. Also, whether or not our founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves at what has come to pass within the last century or so. It is interesting that alot of the very things that our founding fathers were upset about are the very things today that we are complaining about...if varying a wee bit.
Take the line, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shown that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." If you think about one technique for breaking a horse, first you bring the riding gear into the corral with the horse...to get it used to it...then putting on various articles you allow the horse to become accustomed to the equiptment of it's enslavement...so that once it is acclimated to the gear...you can hop on and break it. Has this been done? Are we currently seeing various laws and requirements getting handed out that will later on subjugate us? I would tend to say yes...call it paranoia or whatnot...but with the institution of things of late <patriot act, homeland security etc etc being examples> we are allowing ourselves to become acclimated to loss of liberties. Or how about national guard weapons implacements during protests, corralling of individuals, military personnel within airports bearing weapons unsuited and overcompensated for that sort of work...you can go on for hours about these things that are an EVERYDAY occurance...but totally unknown 10 years ago. Sure times have changed...but one does wonder. Sorta like that frog or salamader that you toss in a pot of water then slowly bring it to a boil...it never notices the tempature change until it is too late.
So my question is this...where are the bright-minded, serious individuals within our country that are needed to be the catalyst for change as were our founding fathers? Or are we so far gone within our boiling pot of water that we don't care to make that personal sacrifice necessary to change the current system? If you look at the history, it was a wide split between don't care, wanna stay with, wanna seperate peoples back then. Same as with today, but the problem with today is this..pacifism is seen as a way of life...rather than a pathway to enslavement and death. Which isn't to say we should all be blood-thirsty murdering hordes desiring nothing less than the executions of the current regime...but rather that taking inactive, passive means gain you nothing.
What is an inactive passive means for change? One would be peaceful protest. No one cares about sign-toting people chanting slogans, or will take them seriously...why? because it does nothing but state the current feelings that are already known. Now with a lie-down or similiar things that causes economic or civil distress, it makes a much better statement. Of course, once you do something like that which is considered somewhat extreme, off to the pokey with you for being a disturbance or what not...funny how that works...one of the most powerful forms of active peaceful protest is stolen away by the very laws created to protect our freedoms. Not to mention that is is very hard to find many people with the intestinal fortitude to show a little personal sacrifice in the name of causes and change. So the few that do take it to that point, change nothing, because of the cowardice or unwillingness to sacrifice self for the greater cause. Usually because of rationalizing that they have bigger responsibilities that prevent them from doing these things...ie family, kids, job..etc etc...How many of the founding fathers had families or responsibilities that in this day and age many would use as an excuse? Most of them...John Adams had a wife and kids...and guess what...while he was fomenting rebellion, she was off gathering saltpeter for gunpowder...Either were a death sentece or imprisonment. We love to sit around and say, "we are enlightened, we have found a better way to illicit change"...guess what...you aren't and you haven't...what great change has our new way of protesting changed? Nothing, and our government grows more powerful. It is sad to see how the valor and courage of our people has deterioated into fear and smugness. Anyhow, i am just as much to blame as everyone else...but the lack of belief and concern is overwhelming...how can you martyr yourself when few people will even pay attention for any other reason but for entertainment? My challenge to you is this...read through the Declaration of Independence, see for yourself what was considered to be a worthy cause to sacrifice yourself for, and decide whether or not the challenge and sacrifice is worthy...
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