Today I spoke to some youths, most of whom were about 13 years old, and we discussed how open modern society is to change.
To wit, I held up my iPod and noted that 17 years ago (when I was 13), we never imagined fitting over 1,000 songs on a such a tiny devise. We were still using tapes and had only just begun to discover compact discs.
I also held up my cell phone. The idea that you could contact or be contacted by anyone virtually anywhere was something that seemed closer to Star Trek than the near future.
Just prior to this very moment, I went upstairs to watch a TV show with my wife. She said, "Give me ten minutes," and I thought nothing of it. We now have DVR and can watch the show whenever we feel like it.
These are just a few of the changes in the past decade. I wonder what lies in store for the next. Good things, I suspect, provided that people are not hoodwinked by Al Gore.
I told them that most changes come with a bit of pain (think of all the telegraphers who were put out of business by the telephone), but overall changes point toward a trend of progress.
Of course, by progress I mean real progress. Not the same old BS from so-called "progressives" (i.e. "liberal democrats" in the USA). I'm talking about the progress that makes lives better and easier. The redistribution of wealth and extension of the state's powers are contrary to progress. Still, many will support the closet Marxists because they'd rather let someone else work for them. It's a very short-term gain (and only again if you can look beyond the greed and subsequent theft behind it), but that's about as far as the socialists can look.
I suggest you pray, or perhaps even - dare I say - vote, that Hillary Clinton is not elected president. Because if this becomes a reality, we will be living in New Canada faster than you can blink. Progress, you see, will be a thing of the past.
ReplyDeleteIn a recent speech, she suggested that she would "take the oil companies profits" in order to fund her something or other welfare project. May I suggest that I collect her book profits so that I may do with them as I please as I am obviously entitled to them.
Also, with respect to Al Gore. He appeared before a Congressional committee to claim not only that "the Earth has a fever" but also that we have an energy crisis in this county. I have one question, and only one question for Mr. Gore: How can you sit there, bitching and moaning about global warming and energy crisis when your personal residence uses more energy in one month that the average American household consumes in over a year?...I wait right here for your response.
I will never vote for Hillary Clinton. I will also never merely vote against her. Whenever a person votes, he or she is essentially making a decision that could bind others against their will and with force. If I do manage to vote, it will be for principle. Until such a candidate arrives, I will continue (much to the distaste of my great-aunt Mardi) to write my own name in.
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