justin_o_guy2 wrote on 04/23/16 at 07:35:22:I think animal instinct is enough to see that we are heading down a path that has a bad end. The Trajectory is and has been downhill and no POLICY CHANGES are being implemented that would reverse the trend. How smart does someone need to be to see that? I have a buddy who didn't graduate HS, and he gets it.
Of course, education and intelligence are different. He's not stupid.
Yes, I am not educated in the "system" either, yet, I have people ask me if I went to a university, etc.
They are not being sarcastic, but genuine in their appraisal of me.
I began to "learn" once I challenged myself, and tossed my pride aside.
I still get, those of shallow understandings, to please explain something again, as I did not grasp what it is is they are trying to "teach" me.
They take it as an affront, or challenge, its really weird.
I work in a field with heavy government over site, the FAA.
Strict adherence is not optional, but mandatory.
Rework for non conforming build is a major economic burden that is so avoidable, yet.......
I see it as just an extension of who people are, the why, and how, of what makes them tick, etc.
I have spoken to them, who try and push shoddy work, that their product is sub-standard.
WOW, talk about push back
JOG, you know very well we have been sold a line.
It is so readily visible in others, but hard to see in our self.
Even those way up the food chain are blind to it, its that ingrained.
It has leached into all segments of our daily lives.
With the invent of TV, it was delivered readily into our households.
We saw this with our eyes, heard it with our ears, it had to be true....
At the least, a seed was planted in our first impressions of exposure.
You know the power of first impression, next to impossible to dispel.
Society has a new tool.
For all its misuse, it also has the capacity to enlighten.
The INTERNET.
Yes, the very one ALGORE invented
We no longer need to feed at the public trough censored by the powerful.
But it is up to us, like you have often stated, to do our own research.
That alone is not enough, unless, we challenge our findings.
I do believe we will, for as I believe the current course is unsustainable, I think the natural remedy, which is sustainable, is challenging those beliefs, and dogmas, those wielding the power, push.
It will be a war, but not of brawn and might, no.
But of truth.
An ABSOLUTE pillar, of a sustainable society.
The knowledge and wisdom gleaned will propel mankind to a new understanding.....
Its basis with be love and tolerance, NOT co-opted by a bigoted political party, leadership, corporate, but genuine and freely executed by self, not mandated by laws or religious doctrine.
If not, we succumb, and what is, will be no more....
Man has a natural instinct to survive.
That is why I choose the former
Pages: 
