PINNED TO A WALL

PINNED TO A WALL

There are many forms of slavery and all of them are bad. But one of the worse is a mental slave trapped inside the walls of a society pinned with regressive, cultural traits. As much as I loved grandma, I do not want to return to the days were the only form of communication was the battery operated, big, brown, box, and if we were lucky, and if the weather conditions were just right, we might be able to tune in to the Grand Ole Opry from Nashville, Tennessee.

There were only two books in the entire house and they were the Bible and the Sears and Roebuck catalogue.  Sears was the retail giant, but the retail giant learned, if you don’t play ball in the game of progress, you will be left out in the cold.

It must have been misery with a capital M to be a bedridden, senior citizen in an environment where there were no cooling devises, or to be confined to a sickbed without any form of entertainment. Every time I sit back in my easy chair and pick up the remote and enjoy a hundred channels on my smart TV; I say, hooray for progress. Growing old may not be the best thing in the world, but progress has made it better.

You can build all the walls you want until America is completely behind a wall of confinement, and all you will have done is destroy America.  You will never stop the progressive, universal, globalization of the planet earth. Modernization has made the earth a global society and modernization is progress.

America is faced with a much greater turbulent than just the weather. A once divided house was put back together by a man named Abraham Lincoln. But today, that house is divided again, as much as, or even more than, the days of the Civil War.

It is depressing to see an America where husband stands against wife, or father against son, or brother against brother. A worse scenario is when a child has to turn against parents. A parent should be very careful of the example set before children. Children are the first to recognize dishonesty in adults. However, in most cases, children will join with parents in acts of dishonesty rather than challenging them. There is no worse situation in parenting than teaching a child to be dishonest.

  

 Nevertheless, for sanity sake, I have arrived at a conclusion. I might be able to understand some adults being brainwashed by a genius, but I will never be able to understand any adult being brainwashed by a low-level fool.