Today's subject is "what do you think is the biggest problem with the country?"
Well... so many things. But really, I think the biggest thing is the fact that we have no idea how our fears and prejudices affect not only our personal lives, but the whole country.
When I hear the phrase 'to hell in a handbasket', it reminds me of Toto from the Wizard of Oz. You know, the part where the witch (before she's actually the witch) takes him away in the basket on her bike, and he's just kind of like, 'eh, whatever.' Yeah, he does eventually escape, but it is more that he just gets bored and jumps out. He doesn't really seem to have that much of an idea what will happen to him if he doesn't run away. It looks more like he realized that his food bowl was left behind.
I was listening to a Twilight Zone radio drama, called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. It is about aliens beginning to destroy the world by simply kicking off small fears. They turn off power and cut off the ability to communicate, and send a UFO flying overhead. And that is all they need to do. The fears and prejudices that the people of Maple Street have been pretending don't exist suddenly come to the fore. This person is a little different, of course everyone has noticed. That person has a radio in his basement, and spends time outside looking up into the sky in the wee hours of the morning. Lights start flipping on just in one person's house, and soon that person is shot dead. Then lights flip on in another house, and there is even a point where the people, just regular people in any average city, are trying to figure out what to do if a small child on the street is actually an alien. It cuts away to the aliens, discussing the "invasion", and the fact that the humans will probably destroy themselves with just the slightest nudge in that direction.
This is a bit of a roundabout way to reach the point I am trying to make... but here is the point. Our fears and prejudices are what is wrong with the world. Every country, every race, every people group, every family, every single person... we all have some sort of prejudice, and if those prejudices are put into the right (or wrong, depending on how we're looking at it) situation, they turn into fear. Fear can become dangerous, especially when herd/mob mentality takes over. And the worst part of it is the fact that, in order to be PC, we claim to not have any prejudices. And pretending to not have prejudices is often more damaging than having prejudices in the first place. Because if you never admit to having them, you never deal with them. If you never deal with them, you never know when they will come out as fears.
Our country is being torn apart by fears of this group or that. And we are riding along in that basket, pretending that nothing is happening, and acting like we are going on a bike ride. We think everything is someone else's fault, so why would we have anything to worry about?
This blog feels really scattered to me... but I'm not sure how to bring it together more than this. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.
Well... so many things. But really, I think the biggest thing is the fact that we have no idea how our fears and prejudices affect not only our personal lives, but the whole country.
When I hear the phrase 'to hell in a handbasket', it reminds me of Toto from the Wizard of Oz. You know, the part where the witch (before she's actually the witch) takes him away in the basket on her bike, and he's just kind of like, 'eh, whatever.' Yeah, he does eventually escape, but it is more that he just gets bored and jumps out. He doesn't really seem to have that much of an idea what will happen to him if he doesn't run away. It looks more like he realized that his food bowl was left behind.
This is a bit of a roundabout way to reach the point I am trying to make... but here is the point. Our fears and prejudices are what is wrong with the world. Every country, every race, every people group, every family, every single person... we all have some sort of prejudice, and if those prejudices are put into the right (or wrong, depending on how we're looking at it) situation, they turn into fear. Fear can become dangerous, especially when herd/mob mentality takes over. And the worst part of it is the fact that, in order to be PC, we claim to not have any prejudices. And pretending to not have prejudices is often more damaging than having prejudices in the first place. Because if you never admit to having them, you never deal with them. If you never deal with them, you never know when they will come out as fears.
Our country is being torn apart by fears of this group or that. And we are riding along in that basket, pretending that nothing is happening, and acting like we are going on a bike ride. We think everything is someone else's fault, so why would we have anything to worry about?
This blog feels really scattered to me... but I'm not sure how to bring it together more than this. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.
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