The Founding Fathers Were Right In 1776... They Remain Right Today
By: Les Carpenter III
Rational Nation USA
I suppose it appropriate to ask the flaming liberals and socialists of the biosphere, of whom there are many, to forgive me for being correct all these many months. For it seems the principals of the founding fathers...You know, those great thinkers of the late 1700's that gave us our founding vision and principals, were right all along.
It seems more and more thinking people in the present are beginning to understand the rational and reasoned logic of those individuals responsible or the birth of the Greatest Nation the world has ever known. the United States of America.
Our country was fonded on the principal that all individuals had the right to freedom and the right enjoy the fruits of their labor. Our founders understood that government was inherently evil and that if left it's own design would quickly become the master of those that it was supposed to serve.
America today is rapidly approaching the very thing our country fought to gain our independence from... A tyrannical and intrusive government that had little or no regard for the free and sovereign individual. A government that sought to impose the will of a few on the lives of the many. A government that believed it knew better what was right for the people it should have sought to serve.
The great minds of the eighteenth century understood that mankind prospered best when left to the ingenuity and creative spirit of the individual. They understood that only through the labor of each individual could society at large create wealth and prosperity for all.
Without question the thinkers of the day understood that idle hands were the devil's playground. It went unquestioned among the thinking individuals of the time that individual effort and personal responsibility was a given, and that people who wised to prosper would do so only by their own sustained efforts.
Today the progressive element of our society has convinced a large percentage that regardless of effort or contribution everyone is deserving of the same results. The very government that should entourage self reliance and sufficiency is (and has been for years) actively promoting socialism and dependence on the nany state.
This destructive trend has been developing over many generations going back to the early 1900's. Each succeeding generation has accepted the growing control of government in our lives and has accepted the evil it brings without question. This has been possible because the very mechanism that is supposed to teach and foster independent critical thinking, academia, has been the conduit in promoting the socialist, progressive, larger government is better mindset for over 100 years.
If one wishes to study philosophy and the lessons of history with an open and inquisitive mind these truths will become self evident. However, if one wishes to continue to accept the progressive socialist thought being sold by our educational institutions and the federal government without question we will continue to witness the decline of the nation we all love.
Please read The Washington Post for a salient commentary on this issue.
Via: Memeorandum
>academia, has been the conduit in promoting the socialist, progressive, larger government is better mindset
ReplyDeleteI've been fortunate in that my department is relatively apolitical, but in general the campus is a breeding ground for totalitarian collectivists. I hear some of the most bizarre, mindless froth from my student sometimes.
I do my best to keep politics out of the classroom, but I definitely encourage my students to think carefully about the "information" they are fed, whether on TV, from a book, or in a classroom. I tell them very clearly at the beginning of each semester that I don't care how they "feel" about something, and that the only opinion that has any meaning is one that is the conclusion of a solid logical argument based on solid, verifiable facts.
No rainbows and unicorns in my classes...though we do watch funny videos sometimes. Well, a lot of the time. Like, every day. But I also quiz them on the videos, so it's okay.
And if the dean asks about it, that's the story I'm sticking with.
I attended college back in the early seventies at the tail end of the "hippie" cultural onslaught on America.
ReplyDeleteOf course I would be lying if I didn't confess to being enamored of the left and it's destructive ideology.
Fortunately for me I was ultimately able to "see through" the false premises that the left base their philosophy (if you want to call it that) and principals on.
I can only imagine what the campuses of America must be like today. My own son (who is a classical liberal)is working towards his masters degree and intends on earning a doctoral degree while at the same time holding a full time job at a local private college and raising a family with his wife who is a teacher... He aspires to be a college President some day and I am sure he struggles to understand the very left he must associate with and that his career success will likely depend on.
It sounds as though you are doing a remarkably admirable job of doing precisely what educators are supposed to do... Teach students to think critically for themselves.
Don't blame you, I would stick with story as well. :-)