Reading and writing ✍️ are fundamental. I’m going to say it again reading and writing ✍️ are fundamental. There’s a reason that slave holders didn’t want their slaves to be able to read. Reading lays the foundation for reasoning skills.
We live in a society where we are separated into two political tribes. The bad Republicans and the good Democrats. In George Washington’s farewell he “warned that the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation’s domestic affairs threatened the stability of the Republic. He urged Americans to subordinate sectional jealousies to common national interests.”
Washington was not the first of the founders to recognize that the political fictionalized of political parties represented a serious threat to stability of the Republic. Parties were born and with them came the inevitable struggle for power. Most Americans don’t know about this apprehension regarding political parties because they don’t read.
Dumbing down the American populace isn’t a new phenomenon. Its been a part of our history from the very beginning. We have reached a breaking point. The nation itself is at grave peril. Abraham Lincoln said “At what point is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be it’s author and finisher. As a nation of freedman, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Now let’s dissect that. He did not see the danger coming from a foreign enemy. He talks about being a nation of freemen. We were never that. Even after the Emancipation proclamation and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment we were never committed to being a nation of freemen. Establishing a nation based on equality would be the bridge we die upon. It turns out we would rather die by suicide.
The foundation the nation was built on is crumbling beneath our feet. We have a level of wealth disparity that this nation has never known before. At the same time we are seeing price gouging the further exacerbates the wealth devid and threatens to further destabilize society. No society with these kind of foundational issues as ever survived. The United States will not be the first to beat the need for stability.
You can only dumb down a society so much before it crumbles under its own weight. We have reached that point. READING IS FUNDAMENTAL to problem solving.
Pay Attention!
Think!!
Eyes Wide 👀 👁 Open!!!
Wow! Bill. I hate to say it, but those who “read” this are not your audience because, they are obviously readers. Your audience is the masses that have been wooed by the Donald Trumps in this country who either cannot read, or are too lazy and would rather allow someone else to tell them what to think. Even more unfortunate, is that these are the same people who made up the mob that stormed the Capital on January 6th, and the “bubbas” who are buying guns and committing mass murder. Sadly, this is where we are, and I declare that it is because we were doomed form the start. Any nation that is built on the hypocritical principle that it is a free nation is doomed until it sets itself straight. The founding fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence demanding their freedom while they continued to kidnap, enslave, and murder thousands of Africans, and forcing the indigenous people of this country onto reservations doomed this nation because they themselves were committing an even greater atrocity than that of which they were claiming to be victims. And this country is still doomed because all these centuries later, they have yet to right the wrong they have done, both to the ancestors of African-Americans and to the indigenous people of this country. The whites of today, have good reason not to want to teach their children Critical Race Theory because they wouldn’t know how to help them get past the guilt and the shame of what their ancestors did to our ancestors. But more importantly, because they don’t want to admit that they themselves are just as much perpetrators as were their ancestors. It’s hard to tell your kid that you are wrong, especially when you have no intentions of changing your behavior. And until they can repent, this country will continue its downward spiral of depraved indifference.
This country will crumble! It was built on thievery, lies, murder, enslavement.What we are experiencing today didn’t just begin the country is rotten and rotting!