I was not talking of my own; my son will be 50 this year and most of my grandchildren are in or graduating college or high school this year. Even when schedules are too tight for getting together, or distances too great, we speak on a regular basis. Even my grandchildren who are from my son's second wife are always saying how much they love me (and I'm not bribing them).
I was relating a concern from someone who still has barely a teenager living at home, who told me what he sees and hears of her and her same-age friends.
My reply was already long so didn't want to include further, similar comments that I'm hearing every day. I will add that, in the past, it was usually responsible parents that opened the eyes of their children. Today, too many adults are working multiple jobs and have other interests of their own, so that many of them have abdicated that responsibility.
Most of my friends have always been - and still are - much younger than I am - and I'm even older than you. Many are dedicated to creating the mind set that the gentleman complained was nearly nonexistent. But others haven't the time, nor money, to spend. When fresh fruits and vegetables are either nonexistent or unaffordable and eggs are $5.00, or more, per dozen and the income from a second job is all but offset by the cost required for the fuel to get to that job. I can understand the dilemma posed to even those with the best of intentions.
I never said that it applied to all youths, but what we tend to overlook is that, under Obama, when 3.5 million activists filled the legislative and executive streets in Washington, D.C. demonstrating to save net neutrality and other matters of great importance that should be of value to nearly the entire population, that number was still only 1% of the country's population. In this country, it is supposed to be that the majority rules. So, for several decades now, the responses out of Washington have largely been to promise, then not to deliver, blaming it on the other party's failure to cooperate. In addition to a well-drafted propaganda campaign from the miltary and the politicians, too many unquestioningly believe what they are told, like members in a vast, nationwide, cult. How can we expect them to pass on the truth, when they, the parents, don't actually know it themselves, or are simply disinterested in it? For the most part, we have a Freddy Prinze society that says, "It's not my job, man." The sad part is that they don't realize that, yes, it is their job, and they're needed badly. Parenting is the most important job of all those that require neither training nor a license. Their children need them as does the rest of society. A government that does not want us to know the truth, laughs at 3.5 million (and tries to eliminate or isolate as many as possible), because its own propagandized army is actually more like 300 million strong. What we need, then, is for 3.5 million activists to grow to 200 million or more., so that we take back the power.
When your country's leaders prove, to those paying attention, that it cares more for some 60 -70 billionaire sociopaths than it does about the welfare of its citizens, a problem exists. Activists can fight, but can't do it alone, for the powers of government are too vast no matter which party is running it. The vast majority need to become the activists.
Though he's gone, I remain a George Carlin fan as I have been for decades. I may paraphrase him slightly, but I never will forget what he told us decades ago, that, "You are sadly mistaken, if you think that the politicians in Washington, D.C. are there to represent you. Regardless of political party, they are all members in the same Big Club - and you and I are not in the big club. They don't care about you at all, at all, at all."
PS I didn't create the mess. I've been in the trenches of activism for years and have marched in every demonstration in which my health would let me participate, up to and including the BLM demonstrations. My son will be 50 years old shortly and throughout his life I spoken to him about the things that I consider to be important I never try to persuade or force him to my beliefs, merely to lay them out for examination and, in the end, he has chosen most for himself. Between his children and those brought to the second marriage (for both) from his wife, every one of my grandchildren loves me. Everyone is either in or graduating college or highschool this year and when the miles are too great to get together with them, we regulary speak on the phone.
I am exactly not the sort that I was identifying. everything I do is geared to contributing to the effort to make sure that they have a future to enjoy. So, please do not point your finger at me - I have all but run through walls for their benefit and that of the population at large as well. In fact, though the percentage of successses is small, any effort to 'convert' people to a sense of responsibility is worth the effort taken. I've even recruit a few true activists from people standing in front or behind me in supermarket checkout lines. And, I know for a fact, that some I've spoken with are out there doiint the grunt work these days.
I really don’t have time to read about you. Nor interest. I come here for Caitlin’s wisdom, not your autobiography. Besides, I already know what you think. Narsi much?
The difference is that i came to add to the conversation and expand it. I raised a legitimate issue by essentially asking where will the next wave of anti-war activists come from and how can we inrease the numbers? You seem only interested in insulting me Your initial reply provoked what you call my biography. So, we have a joint desire. I'll not bother you any longer.
First let me supply context. I was born Jewish and have experienced a lot of hatred, most when young and living in an overwhelmingly lower class Christian neighborhood. However, I am anti all war and all killing, except as an legitimate act of self-defense. I have also found no religion worth my time. In my view, they all, governments and religion alike, expect that you, like a good little cult member will unquestioningly believe everything they say. However, they do have only so many ways to deal with you when you choose not to succumb to the brainwashing and propaganda.
That said, this document,The Protocols of Zion is a hoax that has circulated around the world since 1903. It's wording is difficult to follow. However, from the picture alone, it was clearly written by someone with an antisemitic attitude and designed to make the unintelligent and those who accept what they read ,or are told, as truth swallow even total nonsense. In many cases, because since it is consistent with that which they already agree. Additionally, the money bags and big noses in the drawing are alone enough to appeal to Jew-haters.
Personally, there are Jews that I like and Jews that I do not like; the same holds for Christians, Muslims atheists and others. In most of the sircumstances in which I may find myself, my position is that individuals may do and feel as they wish, proivided they are not harming others physically, or attempting to force others to accept a position which is foreign to them.
Segueing to the next step, I believe that Israel has a right to its existence. I separate my view of any country from its government versus its people. The world I've traveled has had mostly wonderful everyday people, though there were a few exceptions. That said, my basic views of war do not approve of Israel's extreme right-wing leadership, nor its ties with the similar parts of our own government. It does, however, have the right to defend itself., Sourrounded by enemies and half the size of B.C. era Israel, it issued a decree that, if attacked by anyone , it will respond with ten times the force of that received. This served to make the 75 years of modern Israel relatively free from outright war.
The Palestines were never an actual country, but an amalgam of diverse Nomadic tribes. The two sides were occssionally at odds, but in the1980s, Hamas wrested leadership of the Palestinians from those then in charge and, in 1987, issued its manifesto in which its stated goal was to kill all Jews, everywhere in the world, until none remained.
While I'm sure that, if reasonable men of conscience would sit down together, they could find a way to co-exist. I don't know exactly what that would look like, but both parties would actually have to stop all acts of aggression against one another. Many actions of Israel are overkill, but the palestinians are equally responsible for the antagonistic relationship both sides now endure.
I was not talking of my own; my son will be 50 this year and most of my grandchildren are in or graduating college or high school this year. Even when schedules are too tight for getting together, or distances too great, we speak on a regular basis. Even my grandchildren who are from my son's second wife are always saying how much they love me (and I'm not bribing them).
I was relating a concern from someone who still has barely a teenager living at home, who told me what he sees and hears of her and her same-age friends.
My reply was already long so didn't want to include further, similar comments that I'm hearing every day. I will add that, in the past, it was usually responsible parents that opened the eyes of their children. Today, too many adults are working multiple jobs and have other interests of their own, so that many of them have abdicated that responsibility.
Most of my friends have always been - and still are - much younger than I am - and I'm even older than you. Many are dedicated to creating the mind set that the gentleman complained was nearly nonexistent. But others haven't the time, nor money, to spend. When fresh fruits and vegetables are either nonexistent or unaffordable and eggs are $5.00, or more, per dozen and the income from a second job is all but offset by the cost required for the fuel to get to that job. I can understand the dilemma posed to even those with the best of intentions.
I never said that it applied to all youths, but what we tend to overlook is that, under Obama, when 3.5 million activists filled the legislative and executive streets in Washington, D.C. demonstrating to save net neutrality and other matters of great importance that should be of value to nearly the entire population, that number was still only 1% of the country's population. In this country, it is supposed to be that the majority rules. So, for several decades now, the responses out of Washington have largely been to promise, then not to deliver, blaming it on the other party's failure to cooperate. In addition to a well-drafted propaganda campaign from the miltary and the politicians, too many unquestioningly believe what they are told, like members in a vast, nationwide, cult. How can we expect them to pass on the truth, when they, the parents, don't actually know it themselves, or are simply disinterested in it? For the most part, we have a Freddy Prinze society that says, "It's not my job, man." The sad part is that they don't realize that, yes, it is their job, and they're needed badly. Parenting is the most important job of all those that require neither training nor a license. Their children need them as does the rest of society. A government that does not want us to know the truth, laughs at 3.5 million (and tries to eliminate or isolate as many as possible), because its own propagandized army is actually more like 300 million strong. What we need, then, is for 3.5 million activists to grow to 200 million or more., so that we take back the power.
When your country's leaders prove, to those paying attention, that it cares more for some 60 -70 billionaire sociopaths than it does about the welfare of its citizens, a problem exists. Activists can fight, but can't do it alone, for the powers of government are too vast no matter which party is running it. The vast majority need to become the activists.
Though he's gone, I remain a George Carlin fan as I have been for decades. I may paraphrase him slightly, but I never will forget what he told us decades ago, that, "You are sadly mistaken, if you think that the politicians in Washington, D.C. are there to represent you. Regardless of political party, they are all members in the same Big Club - and you and I are not in the big club. They don't care about you at all, at all, at all."
PS I didn't create the mess. I've been in the trenches of activism for years and have marched in every demonstration in which my health would let me participate, up to and including the BLM demonstrations. My son will be 50 years old shortly and throughout his life I spoken to him about the things that I consider to be important I never try to persuade or force him to my beliefs, merely to lay them out for examination and, in the end, he has chosen most for himself. Between his children and those brought to the second marriage (for both) from his wife, every one of my grandchildren loves me. Everyone is either in or graduating college or highschool this year and when the miles are too great to get together with them, we regulary speak on the phone.
I am exactly not the sort that I was identifying. everything I do is geared to contributing to the effort to make sure that they have a future to enjoy. So, please do not point your finger at me - I have all but run through walls for their benefit and that of the population at large as well. In fact, though the percentage of successses is small, any effort to 'convert' people to a sense of responsibility is worth the effort taken. I've even recruit a few true activists from people standing in front or behind me in supermarket checkout lines. And, I know for a fact, that some I've spoken with are out there doiint the grunt work these days.
I really don’t have time to read about you. Nor interest. I come here for Caitlin’s wisdom, not your autobiography. Besides, I already know what you think. Narsi much?
The difference is that i came to add to the conversation and expand it. I raised a legitimate issue by essentially asking where will the next wave of anti-war activists come from and how can we inrease the numbers? You seem only interested in insulting me Your initial reply provoked what you call my biography. So, we have a joint desire. I'll not bother you any longer.
First let me supply context. I was born Jewish and have experienced a lot of hatred, most when young and living in an overwhelmingly lower class Christian neighborhood. However, I am anti all war and all killing, except as an legitimate act of self-defense. I have also found no religion worth my time. In my view, they all, governments and religion alike, expect that you, like a good little cult member will unquestioningly believe everything they say. However, they do have only so many ways to deal with you when you choose not to succumb to the brainwashing and propaganda.
That said, this document,The Protocols of Zion is a hoax that has circulated around the world since 1903. It's wording is difficult to follow. However, from the picture alone, it was clearly written by someone with an antisemitic attitude and designed to make the unintelligent and those who accept what they read ,or are told, as truth swallow even total nonsense. In many cases, because since it is consistent with that which they already agree. Additionally, the money bags and big noses in the drawing are alone enough to appeal to Jew-haters.
Personally, there are Jews that I like and Jews that I do not like; the same holds for Christians, Muslims atheists and others. In most of the sircumstances in which I may find myself, my position is that individuals may do and feel as they wish, proivided they are not harming others physically, or attempting to force others to accept a position which is foreign to them.
Segueing to the next step, I believe that Israel has a right to its existence. I separate my view of any country from its government versus its people. The world I've traveled has had mostly wonderful everyday people, though there were a few exceptions. That said, my basic views of war do not approve of Israel's extreme right-wing leadership, nor its ties with the similar parts of our own government. It does, however, have the right to defend itself., Sourrounded by enemies and half the size of B.C. era Israel, it issued a decree that, if attacked by anyone , it will respond with ten times the force of that received. This served to make the 75 years of modern Israel relatively free from outright war.
The Palestines were never an actual country, but an amalgam of diverse Nomadic tribes. The two sides were occssionally at odds, but in the1980s, Hamas wrested leadership of the Palestinians from those then in charge and, in 1987, issued its manifesto in which its stated goal was to kill all Jews, everywhere in the world, until none remained.
While I'm sure that, if reasonable men of conscience would sit down together, they could find a way to co-exist. I don't know exactly what that would look like, but both parties would actually have to stop all acts of aggression against one another. Many actions of Israel are overkill, but the palestinians are equally responsible for the antagonistic relationship both sides now endure.