Social ramblings from a old, bald, and fat man with BPD
What has become of common sense and thinking over the last several years? How is it the actions of a few people out of the millions of citizens caused such an unneeded response? Cities, businesses, and culture are burning. Large groups of young people who haven’t even lived life are protesting and asking for change based on a history they either never learned or chosen not to understand with an open mind. A sickness that is made to sound like a Biblical cleansing, but is about as terrible as all the others that came before, is being used to force changes in personal freedoms, that personal responsibilities are all that is needed.
We are being told to reject and rewrite a history that was sometimes unfortunate and sometimes inspirational due to a poor understanding of it. I personally do not care for how the little girl and boy treated me in kindergarten in 1976 or how I was cut on the monkey bars in 1978. I felt it was unfair that 3 of my Grandparents were ripped from my life in 1978 or how I was treated by the neighbor in 1982. In 1983 I was called a horrible name by a person I never knew and still do not after all these years. 1987 I was publically broke-up with and lost what was my group of friends, when they all stayed with my other friend who immediately dated my ex. Should I find him today and demand an apology? Look up the kindergarten kids and ask for reparations? Through You Tube videos and FaceBook postings I am learning a whole generation of people are changing the history their Grandparents lived to suit there “idea” on what really happened. Words are now being banned because they are misconstrued into something else. Great men and women from the past, who after all were only “human”, are having their actions and deeds replaced by the most biased trivial things someone may or may not have dug up about them.
“If I was alive then……..” What a fucking stupid thing to say. You weren’t and you never will be. The past is just that, past. Fire has always burned, but since it’s discovery we have learned how to use it, what to look out for to keep it from going out of control, but momentary lapses happen and it does burn again. Do we just decide that there has not been any advances with fire and just totally forget it and stop using it entirely?
“If I was alive then…..” If the Bible is to be believed, Cain killed Able for reasons that were his own. Tribes invaded other tribes again and again. Countries and Empires expanded and fell. Victors gained and losers lost. All of recorded history was such. Terrible things happened to all people no matter what race, religion, or sex. Terrible things were done to all people no matter what race, religion, or sex. It was how it was. You are not going to be reborn in 200 BC, look around with the acquired thousands of years knowledge and tell the nomads how they should share with others because someone’s feelings might get hurt.
I don’t know, maybe I was day-dreaming when History was taught. Especially on American History. You see I am what they call a “Generation X” kid. Personally I believe the last generation that learned values, morals, and common sense by older generations that had learned and slowly came to understand the rights and wrongs of history. We took our lessons with the free thinking abilities of any sane person. We realized the injustices to the Native Americans and Slaves and to this day we hold in a hearts a shame of what ancestors did. We also learned that other people were also wronged, the pilgrims in Europe, the Irish indentured servants, the Jews, Christians in the Spanish Inquisitions, Muslims in the Crusades, almost everyone with the Mongols..
America was formed, just as imperfect as anyone person, to be a country that will learn from it’s mistakes and constantly strive to get better, but as with you and me, there are bumps in the road from time to time, “those without guilt, cast the first stone…..”
The Institutions of the past that single-handedly caused race, religious, and sexist damage have been replaced, removed, and re-educated to be better and more encompassing to it’s citizens. Now though it’s the voices of a few groups or individuals that a 24 hour News channel highlights that besmirch all the gains and improvements our country has made. Because of one or two persons stupidity, a whole race of people are labelled racist no matter what they have done or the acceptance of others.
Whole injustices are being committed that are being ignored because it doesn’t cause a reaction to push an agenda.. Black on black crime, white on white crime, fuck, crime in general. The need to change the past, given reparations, or even for people to bow and scrape for a forgiveness that they have not done anything to have too ask for, is just patently stupid. Just as stupid as looking at someone and assuming they will just do something in the future and should be punished now.
COMMON SENSE, We all have it and we all also have free thought. We all, no matter what race, color or creed, all make assumptions based on what we see, read, or don’t understand.. As a Generation X kid, I grew up with Archie Bunker and George Jefferson, two TV guys with racist views that were told their errors and learned from them. They didn’t go out of their way to push agendas or hurt people and their stupid thoughts were called out, no reparations, no groveling for forgiveness over things, just a basic human understanding that people make mistakes in thoughts and deeds and we all have the capacity to learn and change.
The same media and news today that nightly wants to guilt people also puts out the stuff that causes a person to have thoughts and views about another. Constantly showing a certain race, color or creed as what people see as their prejudice, like drug gang dramas and gangster rap, biker gangs and bad cops, constant focus on one story about one person’s stupidity and turning it into everyone’s stupidity. Making issues where there are none, glorifying people who don’t deserve it, focusing on mistakes made in speech or actions than the whole story. Pig headily not allowing other points of view and making others into villains because they do not fit what someone else believes. We now live in a world where only one side’s opinions matter and no matter what facts or truths the other side presents, they are always wrong.
To be continued…………………