Worthwhile Things To Think About 1

These two links are most useful in providing insight into the modern day dynamics of collectivism versus individualism.  The author uses the book Brave New World Revisited as a guide while referencing other notable sources to supplement or reinforce points made.  1)  https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/01/21/brave-new-world-revisited-key-excerpts-and-my-summary/  

                                                                                            2)  https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/04/04/brave-new-world-revisited-and-the-disease-of-over-organization/   

The author has a separate four part series that focusses on the need to decentralize or die.  As is well established the left wing Democrats/progressives are pushing us as hard as they can in the direction of centralizing everything into a tyrannical socialistic paradise where the collective controls and individuals do not matter.  The links follow:

                                                                               1)  https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/07/11/the-center-cannot-hold-decentralize-or-die-part-1/

                                                                               2)  https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/07/12/its-time-for-local-communities-to-take-charge-and-experiment-decentralize-or-die-part-2/

                                                                               3)  https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/07/13/a-better-future-requires-higher-levels-of-consciousness-decentralize-or-die-part-3/

                                                                               4)  https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/07/14/how-to-build-a-creative-renaissance-decentralize-or-die-part-4/ 

Thoughtful piece. Quote: "As most of us over the age of 30 know, the things that turned us on at 20 have a tendency to become stale and boring, which means that unless we're ready to curl up and die, we have to move on to other things.  Drinking by this time has become moderated (unless you're a drunk); drugs are severely limited or verboten (unless you're a bum); sleeping around has led to marriage (unless nobody wants to marry you); and most of the music and television you spent your precious youth on become either corny or boring (unless you're corny or boring).  What's left to us but to learn?  To build?  To construct a universe within ourselves that allows us to master the universe outside ourselves?  The hallmark of manhood is a reversal of bald consumption – the desire to create, to build a home and a family and a business and a nation and ideas, to be needed by people, to dream things that not only sound good, but work well, to stand amid the chaos of the world and establish your tiny fiefdom in irreproachable order – in short, to go from having your diaper changed to changing a diaper. To do this requires not only positive construction, but positive de-struction – not just the conscious integrating of ideas, but the conscious abandonment of falsehoods, a moving toward the people and things that help us to build, and an aversion to the people and things that ruin the things that we've built.  This daily eureka, the realization that you know something new and beautiful and useful, the joy of growing this knowledge and applying it, never gets stale and never grows tiring."  And, "Thus the joy of becoming too "judgmental" for the children's taste.  Or "racist," as they sometimes call it, or "bigoted."  The sign of manhood.  Observations you're not supposed to make lead to an endless series of eurekas; infinite combinations of personal traits form endless combinations of meanings, like the letters of the alphabet.  The stereotypes begin to form, slowly but surely, all to spot playboys and geniuses and good neighbors and bad friends; hard workers and slackers and good citizens and criminals; patriots and traitors; liars and honest men; caretakers and abandoners across all races and nations and sexes and ages; to assess them by stances and glances and walking and talking; to sum up this living world and do the one thing a child can't: to interpret it rightly."     https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/on_getting_older_and_turning_into_a_racist.html

Another Thoughtful Piece.  "As for me, an anthropologist who escaped the grips of leftist academia, I would like to see LMS take on "cultural appropriation" – a wave of hardcore P.C. that has swept across college campuses and into K-12 schools, ruining many traditions.  Given the wildly popular "Precious Snowflake" episode, any show exposing the hypocrisy of cultural appropriation – for example, during a Baxter Halloween event – would surely be talked about for years to come.  Perhaps, one day, Last Man Standing will return to television.  However, I think Tim Allen said it best: "There is nothing more dangerous right now than a funny, likable conservative character."  The entertainment landscape has been consumed by a culture of intolerance and radical groupthink, a concern voiced by Allen during his interview with Jimmy Kimmel.  I hate to be a skunk at the LMS fan picnic, but Hollywood's contempt for conservative American values is nothing new.  The cancelation of LMS is just another reason so many Americans have tuned out Hollywood, and I suspect there will not be a new antidote any time soon."    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/americas_lost_antidote_to_political_correctness.html

This item deals with the subject of the Deep State, the entrenched Washington DC bureaucrats, the media, academia, etc.'s war with Trump.  Their attitude?  What gives Trump the right to undo all the work we have been doing for years.  Trump's reply?  The people elected me to undo the mess you created and I intend to do what the people want and deserve.  Their reply.  What the people want is not what we want.  Trump's reply.  I know that.  Get out of the way so we can fix the mess you made.   Quote: "Trump is at war with his own government on the foreign policy front as well as many other fronts. That’s what the Mueller “investigation” is all about. With the entire political class, the government bureaucracy, and the media against him – and determined to oust him – Trump is isolated in the Oval Office and unable to actually implement many of the policies he prefers. This is not to say he’s perfect – far from it! – but he’s subject to extraordinary political pressure. Add to this the inertia imposed by the imperial traditions of a city – Washington, D.C. – that have shaped US foreign policy for the last seventy-five years or so. Yes, Trump has a way of upsetting the Powers That Be which is fun to watch: his Korean peace initiative and the announcement of an upcoming meeting with North Korean despot Kim Jong-un has the foreign policy Establishment in a tizzy. Even the alleged “non-interventionists” denounced it as potentially “dangerous” – which just goes to show how subjective emotionalism (i.e. Trump Derangement Syndrome) can distort one’s thinking in ways that aren’t pretty."    https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/04/04/trump-vs-the-permanent-government/

This is a most interesting piece containing a good bit of logic.  Quote: "Here in the United States today, if you express a political or cultural opinion in the public square that dissents from the liberal line, you risk your job, your career, and your sacred honor.  It's true that there have been no public whippings, but there have been plenty of "mostly peaceful protests" against the appearance of heretical speech on campus.  This intolerance is a universal problem with monotheism, writes Stark, because every monotheism knows the truth: to believe in its truth is to be saved; everything else is eternal damnation."   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/what_should_we_call_secular_ideologies_like_marxism_and_social_justice.html