APRIL 2016 NEWSLETTER SEGMENT
Ok, this segment is experimental, and comes to me by way of something said by a facebook friend. In that conversation I suggested she pursue a forum for discussing political correct issues, and that’s where I coined the phrase. Whether or not she will actually go for it is unknown, but I thought I would give it a go here.
The purpose of this segment will be to get your feedback regarding what you consider “politically correct” words, phrases, ideas, laws, mandates, or even fantasies. I will research whatever you come up with, and then dissect it, disseminate it, debunk it, or prove it, using history (Biblical predominately), common sense, and examples.
So please feel free to give me examples of “political correctness”, regardless whether you are for or against it. I will take it wherever the facts, common sense, agenda, or brainwashing takes me.
Ok, we’ve all heard this before, and in modern times, it’s commonly applied to someone (or a group) that resists or doesn’t accept “something new”, or “change”. It is virtually always used in a “negative” sense, as if we are so much wiser than our predecessors, or as a means to discredit ones way of thinking as “obsolete”. This is generally done as a means for redirecting ones thoughts and perspective to change to that of the person (s) asserting the quote.
In researching this, the earliest reference I found was Isaiah 43:18 (King James 2000 Bible) “Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old”.
Ok, first of all one would really have to go back into the past to even find this example, which basically discredits the quote already. Secondly, if it were to be used as an example….(“see there, even the Bible says it’s not cool to live in the past”), the context in which it was used had to do with the Israelites coming out of enslavement in Egypt and looking forward to the promised land.
Here, the message is obvious and a stern reminder that for those who do not pay attention to the past, your future can and will be adversely effected.
So to put this in perspective using common sense and history, it becomes crystal clear that this quote “Don’t live in the past” could have a legitimate place depending on the context. As far as society is concerned, the quote is a divisive and derogatory term meant to push an agenda of “change”. However, this “change” cannot be good if you consider the “counter quote” and “real history”.
I will conclude our analysis of “Don’t live in the past”, with a quote of my own…… My objective here is to open the mind of the average reader. I have zero intention of replacing “free thought” by attempting to get ya’ll to think my way. I do want the reader to “THINK” though. Question everything, including me, but think! Today’s quote is used frequently, and as I mentioned before, not with good intention. No matter what your political position, with this kind of examination, you will know who’s right and who’s wrong. When you find that history has either been left out, changed, or altered to make an agenda more plausible, mark that agenda as FALSE
Whether or not you believe in God, or the Bible my hope is that you’ll use it as a historical point of reference and a general source of human values.
My ultimate intention is to disprove a (what I believe to be) common myth “you can’t teach common sense”. You see, I think it can be done, and I think this is the way!
You can tell from the segment above, as well as reading this newsletter in general, that my thought process works a little differently than some. Doesn’t mean that I’m any better than anyone else (actually it seems like a curse most of the time, because I can’t just blow things off like some) it just means that I take things a lot farther than others. With that being said I’ll now explain how the latest acquisition of Valspar by Sherwin Williams ties in with both “Nature” and “Capitalism”…..I know, what a frickin stretch! LOL!
The cycle of life pretty much depends on a “food chain” or “pecking order”. The small fish get scarfed by the big fish, and the big fish get scarfed by the bigger fish. Well, that’s exactly what has happened with Matrix, Quest, Valspar, and now Sherwin Williams.
Some would say that this isn’t fair, but in life, it is absolutely essential to the “balance of Nature”. In business, it is absolutely essential for capitalism to work too. Now for short minded individuals, they will bad mouth capitalism for swallowing up all the “mom and pops”, “small businesses”, or “sole proprietors”. In reality (and by examining the situation as we did in the previous segment) you will find that acquisition by the “big fish” actually triggers a “smaller fish” to come in and do what the big boys can’t !
#2, To inform any of you that may think Capitalism is anything but the greatest system on earth.
Do as I recommended above, and question my perspective and comparison. I want to hear how any other form of society mirrors nature, and the next time someone says “I think socialism would be great”, hopefully you’ll be able to enlighten them to the fact that according to the laws of nature, it is capitalism that most closely resembles that which God created.
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