Misplace Priorities?
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It makes you wonder....
The outrage is building. People are starting to really get angry.
Shortly, we expect that there will be out-and-out protest.
No, I am not talking about protests over the War....the impasse at the Mexican border or the loss of jobs. What I am referring to is the Divinci Code.
When you think about it, people in this country are showing more their personal emotions over a fiction story than they are over real world facts. This gives reason for pause. With things going to hell all around us, most people are more concerned about the portrayal of Jesus having a wife and a child more than they are about whether we have a world left should Bush decide to go to war over Iran.
This truly is cause for shaking one's head.
And the obvious question is "why?" Why are we so concerned over a fictional account of something that happened over 2,000 years ago than we are over what is happening today that is real?
Somewhere along the line, it seems as if Americans have lost their moorings.
They will watch programs hour after hour about athletes taking steroids, but they don't want to know anything about politics that is a key determinant of what happens in their lives. Bush, want to go to war with Iraq? . Okay. We're with you. You want to teach those Persians a lesson or two? . You have our blessing....just don't interfere with the game...
They are more concerned over the fact that Brittany may be getting a divorce than they are about whether gasoline goes up to four dollars a gallon. And by the way, not too many people have proven willing to give up their "tanks" even though they are now paying 90 dollars and change to fill them up.
From all of this, it would seem that somewhere along the way we have gotten our priorities out of whack. Things that should be important are being back-burnered to things that aren't important.
Our behavior is starting to resemble rats lost in a maze and the obvious question is why? Instead of finding out why are addicted to abs of steel over building our minds, we should ask ourselves where have we gone wrong.
Are we suffering some kind of national malaise after 9/11 similar to what Vets experience after returning from Iraq? We don't seem to have a clue. In fact, we don't seem to care.
All we know is that we want what we want when we want it. And as long as nobody stops us from doing the things we want to do or believe in, we don't want to get involved. Perhaps that's the reason: We believe in the bible and the current investigations into rumor and cause is telling us everything we don't want to hear. And that's the reason people are becoming upset with a movie based upon a fictional book. It's an interesting perspective and may explain why fiction has become more important than fact. And one of the reason our priorities have gotten scrambled. in the process.
Add to that tendency, the fact that we are not regarded as particularly introspective, we might be able to go on like this til the walls come crumbling down.
In any event, the Great Priority Inversion is something to commit to records for the Archeologists to ponder when they uncover what was left of Iran, Iraq and the United States another two thousand years down the road.
Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon
It makes you wonder....
The outrage is building. People are starting to really get angry.
Shortly, we expect that there will be out-and-out protest.
No, I am not talking about protests over the War....the impasse at the Mexican border or the loss of jobs. What I am referring to is the Divinci Code.
When you think about it, people in this country are showing more their personal emotions over a fiction story than they are over real world facts. This gives reason for pause. With things going to hell all around us, most people are more concerned about the portrayal of Jesus having a wife and a child more than they are about whether we have a world left should Bush decide to go to war over Iran.
This truly is cause for shaking one's head.
And the obvious question is "why?" Why are we so concerned over a fictional account of something that happened over 2,000 years ago than we are over what is happening today that is real?
Somewhere along the line, it seems as if Americans have lost their moorings.
They will watch programs hour after hour about athletes taking steroids, but they don't want to know anything about politics that is a key determinant of what happens in their lives. Bush, want to go to war with Iraq? . Okay. We're with you. You want to teach those Persians a lesson or two? . You have our blessing....just don't interfere with the game...
They are more concerned over the fact that Brittany may be getting a divorce than they are about whether gasoline goes up to four dollars a gallon. And by the way, not too many people have proven willing to give up their "tanks" even though they are now paying 90 dollars and change to fill them up.
From all of this, it would seem that somewhere along the way we have gotten our priorities out of whack. Things that should be important are being back-burnered to things that aren't important.
Our behavior is starting to resemble rats lost in a maze and the obvious question is why? Instead of finding out why are addicted to abs of steel over building our minds, we should ask ourselves where have we gone wrong.
Are we suffering some kind of national malaise after 9/11 similar to what Vets experience after returning from Iraq? We don't seem to have a clue. In fact, we don't seem to care.
All we know is that we want what we want when we want it. And as long as nobody stops us from doing the things we want to do or believe in, we don't want to get involved. Perhaps that's the reason: We believe in the bible and the current investigations into rumor and cause is telling us everything we don't want to hear. And that's the reason people are becoming upset with a movie based upon a fictional book. It's an interesting perspective and may explain why fiction has become more important than fact. And one of the reason our priorities have gotten scrambled. in the process.
Add to that tendency, the fact that we are not regarded as particularly introspective, we might be able to go on like this til the walls come crumbling down.
In any event, the Great Priority Inversion is something to commit to records for the Archeologists to ponder when they uncover what was left of Iran, Iraq and the United States another two thousand years down the road.
Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon
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