“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”.
The Founders of this Country bequeathed us a system of government that led to generations of success. Unfortunately, as your essay illustrates so well, in that success lay the seeds of our eventual destruction.
“A republic, if you can keep it” was Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
The current generations of Americans are in the process of showing him they couldn't.
Once again Mr. Arnell has explained the importance of a National Identity in clear and certain language that even a 5th grader can understand. That is unless the 5th grader is from one of the cities or states that have been deluged with more immigrants than their traditional school systems are capable of educating. Lost in the moral posturing of people who don’t actually want immigrants in their communities, but believe that every human being is somehow magically entitled to every advantage and privilege of the historical citizenship, are the underprivileged children who live in jurisdictions where schools are failing in every aspect solely because of their inability to accommodate more people than they are economically capable of educating.
Thanks Chris, you are trying hard to educate us and we appreciate it. Sadly, most moral warriors don’t understand the realities of what it takes to achieve the society they dream of, a society that has never existed anywhere in the world to date. Feeling good and superior to others is an addictive experience, and like all addictive behavior it requires the willing abandonment of the common sense that protects the lives of others who do not engage in addictive substances or behaviors. Similarly, this addiction to moral posturing, like all others, creates a wide circle of those, who while not addicted themselves suffer from the consequences of the addicted group’s behaviors and their refusals to accept reality!
At some previous time we could have excused the damages to lives, families, and society, that we would say were caused by the unexpected adverse consequences of addictions. That time is long past! With the experience of decades of addiction research and medicine, incontrovertible evidence has been documented by the scientific community, evidence that shows the direct relationship between addiction and the horrors that always occur in the exact same sequence of the downward spiral that occurs each time an addiction takes hold of a human being.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”.
The Founders of this Country bequeathed us a system of government that led to generations of success. Unfortunately, as your essay illustrates so well, in that success lay the seeds of our eventual destruction.
“A republic, if you can keep it” was Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
The current generations of Americans are in the process of showing him they couldn't.
Another fine column. Assimilation is a major key.
Once again Mr. Arnell has explained the importance of a National Identity in clear and certain language that even a 5th grader can understand. That is unless the 5th grader is from one of the cities or states that have been deluged with more immigrants than their traditional school systems are capable of educating. Lost in the moral posturing of people who don’t actually want immigrants in their communities, but believe that every human being is somehow magically entitled to every advantage and privilege of the historical citizenship, are the underprivileged children who live in jurisdictions where schools are failing in every aspect solely because of their inability to accommodate more people than they are economically capable of educating.
Thanks Chris, you are trying hard to educate us and we appreciate it. Sadly, most moral warriors don’t understand the realities of what it takes to achieve the society they dream of, a society that has never existed anywhere in the world to date. Feeling good and superior to others is an addictive experience, and like all addictive behavior it requires the willing abandonment of the common sense that protects the lives of others who do not engage in addictive substances or behaviors. Similarly, this addiction to moral posturing, like all others, creates a wide circle of those, who while not addicted themselves suffer from the consequences of the addicted group’s behaviors and their refusals to accept reality!
At some previous time we could have excused the damages to lives, families, and society, that we would say were caused by the unexpected adverse consequences of addictions. That time is long past! With the experience of decades of addiction research and medicine, incontrovertible evidence has been documented by the scientific community, evidence that shows the direct relationship between addiction and the horrors that always occur in the exact same sequence of the downward spiral that occurs each time an addiction takes hold of a human being.