Over the weekend, my son and I went to Vance’s Outdoors to browse as well as purchase some items we had had our eyes on.
On the way home, we stopped by our friend’s house. We had not seen Werner in several weeks and thought it would be a good time to stop by and say HI for a few minutes.
Our conversation started out well, speaking of various events that were going on or about to happen in SouthWestern Ohio.
Unfortunately, Werner and I have very different societal and political views – and Werner was in the mood to show how much anger he had built up inside of him.
For a while, I handled it well, having a one-word reply for each of the topics he mentioned. No matter what the subject was or who he mentioned, my one-word reply was “symptom”. By symptom, I meant the topics he brought up were symptoms as compared to the core or nucleus or crux of the topic.
I did agree both Republicans and Democrats are failing the society. I am not sure his viewpoint on why they are failing as Werner never stayed on a topic for more than 2 minutes at a time (the conversation was seemed to take place on Twitter, as we delved no deeper into any one subject for more than 90 seconds).
What I perceived was a lot of anger aimed at everyone as he, Werner, was not being adequately represented by the political parties.
Now Werner likes to represent he is a socialist. A major problem with socialists is the same problem with any tyrannical form of government. During the transition, you expect a lot of upheaval and unrest as the old is being mass-murdered (old traditions as well as old beliefs and those embracing the same). Once the change has occurred, the tyrant has to create more forms of change – forever change if you will.
For without the continued anger, most will quickly realize the situation they are in and just as quickly look for ways to escape to a freer society. It is why Mao had his cultural revolution 20 years after gaining control of China. Without the cultural revolution, how do you raise the next generation of revolutionaries. For without revolt, these young minds may turn their attention to entrepreneurship, having families, and building a home for their loved ones. Such things would take young minds off god (the state) and focus on cultivating a life of peace and liberty.
Yes, America has its Werners. Actually, America has an entire generation (or two) of Werners.
You may know them by another name – a nation of AOCs.
And AOC is a good mascot for them – young, energetic, angry, full of hate and full of revolutionist beliefs and ideas.
I pray I can live through this cultural revolution so I can advise this generation of AOCs on a revolution that leads to liberty. Because they will become very disillusioned when they realize the revolution they have been pushing for only leads to another uprising, and another.
Rather, long live this new revolution, dedicated once again to these truths, which are self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
May the time come swiftly that these new revolutionaries recognize governments are instituted to secure these rights, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
