It’s July 4th weekend and so of course I’m thinking about the concept of freedom. I even went back and re-read the Declaration of Independence with the reverence others might hold for the Bible. And it strikes me that we need a major refresher on that seminal document.
Can we offer Declaration Of Independence study groups the way others run Bible studies?
Our society is quite sick, actually, with our nation running off the rails, engaged in endless wars that make no sense. I truly believe that sociopaths are running America, for how else to explain how we could be in this mess? We stand by helplessly and watch banks that are too big to fail almost bring the world down with no punishment. No banker went to jail. We watch Monsanto, a company that used to be a weapon manufacturer and now ‘weaponizes food’, and many other multi-national corporations destroy our food and water supply. We cannot stop the geoengineering that has changed weather patterns, sending the most important agricultural states (CA, TX) into severe drought and driving up the price of food. We look up and see unmarked airplanes pump out huge plumes of chemicals into the atmosphere in criss-cross patterns, turning the blue sky to milky white.
We don’t know who is doing this or for what reason, but according to emergency room data, many of us get sick right after the spraying occurs.
We adults are raising kids to focus on the short-term material wins, keeping them so busy doing things strategically designed to secure a win. In fact, I find that this wonderful generation of beautiful kids is living in stun-mode, with no free time to speak of and an inability to take time for contemplation thanks to 24/7 technology.
Millennials are energetic, fun, book smart and, ultimately, asleep.
So it’s time to offer those DOI study groups to remind us that America is not just here to consume products and to support those multi-national businesses who poison us and do their best to keep us all asleep.
America is a bold idea. Its brand is ‘personal freedom’.
Read these words carefully: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men 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.” Our Republic is being usurped by business interests, including all that college admissions silliness where the truth must not be told.
Forget the Common Core, folks. That’s just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It would make way more sense to hold DOI study groups to wake up and energize an entire generation so we can get this train back on the tracks.