About Me

I am many things. Many things you would know by looking at me and many things you would not know. I am too smart to be an intellectual and too ADHD to be an academic. I believe that some believe I live in “the Greatest Country in the World.” I believe you are both right and wrong in that. I believe that I am the progeny of many people, many races, many struggles, many successes and still many more choices. I have an obligation to embrace the heritage handed down to me and continue the journey left to my generation. I used to believe actions spoke louder than words, but then I saw the 2000 election. I now know that words, uttered enough times by enough people for long enough will always move us farther than just actions. So these are my words. I’m sure you have yours, feel free to share them. I have some rules for this blog: 1. I welcome debate on any opinion or statement I make but I reserve the right to take the discussion off-line; 2. If I feel that a comment is being used to subvert the topic I reserve the right to remove the comment from the blog.; 3. ANY comments made with more-rhetoric-than-fact WILL BE REMOVED.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Over-Liberalizing Evolution & Other things we teach our adults

March of the Penguins commentary by Michel Martin (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100135891

"...Can I just tell you? What's troubling about it, if indeed a kiddie movie about penguins can be said to be troubling, is the suggestion that the penguins weren't saved from starvation and extinction because they had intrinsic worth — in other words, they weren't saved because they deserve to be saved because they happen to exist — but rather, they deserved to be saved because they were entertaining."

Here comes the intrinsic worth discussion...We don't strive by saving everyone. We don't grow by saving everyone. We grow stagnant when we save everyone. Say what you want about the world we live in...inequality, squalor, greed, corruption, poverty, disease and famine...but I would still take this over a Brave New World-esque life.

Our greats come from our worst. Our newest inventions, businesses, arts, literature, media, philosophers and athletes come from those who don't have enough access to be inundated with the stupifying/pacifying media that the rest of us subject ourselves to. We are not so fragile, so disenfranchised, so without that we cannot get ahead...we get ahead because we want to overcome those things.
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