Origins
I’m thinking about these current turmoils and tryin to make sense out of nonsense. Although it’s obvious that what is happening today is perpetrated by politicians, pariahs, and perpetrators, it’s a learning opportunity. It’s a chance to highlight history and make folks further understand how great our country is.
I’m not the one to coddle attention seeking behavior. It’s clear as day that just creates a dysfunctional co dependence that serves no one. While we have to acknowledge folks feeling, we don’t need to be taking advantage of their dissonance.
I’m a white older man, so by default I don’t have a say. Luckily I don’t believe that. I build things for a living. I ain’t off the grid yet, I’m closer to under the radar. When I’m building things I understand that the foundation of what I’m building is the most important part. If my foundation is not sound, my finish product will be junk.
It’s like that with life. We all have problems along the way. Money, marriage, children all challenge our ability to solve problems. Finding the origin of our problem is very important. We do that by talking, even if it’s a little uncomfortable. Most functional people have experienced that satisfaction when you let go of your stress or anger and worked a problem out honestly with a wife, a friend, or co worker. At the very least you understood where each person was coming from and agree to disagree, or even better, compromised.
In public forums this is a lost art. Folks just spout out examples, dig up statistics that are available for any side you choose, and devolve into idiots “super posting”, which is the equivalent of screaming. In most cases if the origins are against your side your racist. Most folks don’t even understand the difference between race, ethnicity, and culture. So you have idiots skipping the origin using the wrong terminology.
I’ve use this example before. You can be intelligent enough to structure a dissertation that’s perfect, but if your thesis is the comparison of how high dog fleas jump compared to cat fleas, you’re probably not to smart. And yes, that was an actual topic. You gotta do a little work to have an educated opinion, and most folks don’t have that kind of training, they rant emotional non sense.
I ain’t tryin to keep anybody outta the conversation. You just need to be open to listening and responding in a manner that’s civilized if you want an outcome with positive results. I’m not sure many folks want that though, it seems that many folks believe their side and their self are one. At that point you’re not productive.
There are a myriad of sub cultures that ascribe to certain ethnicities. The race is sometimes an issue. Like Christian groups, there is a color line in many white and black churches. The Muslim groups that don’t allow whites. Even the Jews, who’s race and ethnicity create a segregated culture. Non of these groups are a race.
Within all of these groups there is a segment that is poor. Poverty is one of the common denominators involved with American dysfunction. If you’re poor, you’re gonna have more contact with law enforcement. If you’re poor you’re gonna have schools that aren’t as well funded as others. If you’re poor your food source isn’t as healthy. The list goes on.
You raise a kid in a poor environment living these truths without a father, or two parents, and it’s a recipe for disaster. Doesn’t matter what ethnicity, race, or culture, it’s not a good outlook. That’s not to say you can’t be poor and your kids make it to another socio economic class. Some folks live in poverty and the kids do fine, provided the parents are involved and attentive.
We’re missing these conversations and focusing on the results of these phenomena. We aren’t focusing on what the culture around us is teaching kids, we’re reacting to the product of this dysfunction like a single parent raising “little man”. We aren’t asking the tough questions of family structure and parenting, we’re feeding the delusions of subsets of cultures so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings. Honesty about the origins of our problems is a starting point, not a view point.
Chasing ghosts of the past is like tryin to grasp smoke, you end up with a handful of nothing. We’ve let the politic destroy our common sense. We go through this same shit every election year. Politicians rely on this ignorance because it will propel them, along with their culture, one step closer to utopia. If you’re blinded by this you’re just a mouthpiece for your own oppressor.