Nothing is going to be easy. We have for far too long lost
our way. Conservatives like to suggest we need to return to traditional values
and you know what? They are right -- but not in the way they like to think. We
don't need to return to a day when the government allowed businesses to run free
and rape and pillage as they see fit. We do need to return to an ethic where
people mean more than property. We need to return to a time when we understood
that our quality of life has little to do with the quantity of crap we have
but, instead, a lot to do with the quality of the life we live.
The hardest change is, sadly, getting off that "ME!" trip
most of us are on. This ethic of grabbing all you can and screwing the rest is
no way to survive as a country, a people, or a race. We need to think a little
deeper than just ourselves and, unfortunately, it will take a long time for the
people in this country to develop that skill. We have no choice. But what
remains to be seen here is the amount of pain people are willing to endure
before forcing such a change to happen.
I do not know the answer of that.
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