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Posted on 04/26/2011 12:08:16 AM PDT by wac3rd
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #316
I believe that there are two forces struggling to dominate this country. Reinvention and nostalgia. The first seeks to imagine and work toward a better future by changing the status quo. The second insists that things were better in the past and works to undo change. Oddly, the opposing forces have come to be represented by colors. Blue and red. It's no secret where my sympathies lie. I've always been a big fan of reinvention. My life is a testament to it. There is simply no way that a scared, sickly, vaguely educated kid from Long Island gets to live the life he's living now without being willing to scrap old, unworkable ideas and start over (Of course it helped that I didn't have a rosy past to feel nostalgic towards). Which brings me to the point of this vanity card. I'm confused by people who seek to return to a life that wasn't that great to begin with. Oh, I get it if you used to be the ruling class. If your childhood memories include watching your granddaddy sip a mimosa on the veranda while being serviced by the upstairs maid, then sure, nostalgia makes sense. But, if you're like me and didn't know anyone who had a veranda, let alone a maid, let alone an upstairs, then why not consider reinvention? Maybe we can make this country a better place to live. It's certainly a more exciting way to go. You know, an uncertain future, filled with mystery and adventure. Of course, if nostalgia wins the day, if we are to attempt to reverse the course of history, then I will do my best to cooperate -- starting with bangin' me some household help.*
*Relax, Celia. It's just a joke.
(Excerpt) Read more at chucklorre.com ...
First Republic: 1789-1856.
Second Republic: 1857-1913.
Third Republic: 1914-1963.
Fourth Republic: 1964-2008.
The First Anti-Republic: 2009-present.
Western democratic capitalism, for all its flaws, has objectively provided much greater prosperity and much greater freedom for far more people than any other system in history.
Lorre’s response, and that of others like him, is to tear it down because it still has flaws.
This is the rough equivalent of setting fire to the house because it needs cleaning.
The mindset, which is seen in so much of what liberals and radicals think and do, is that good things happen by themselves but bad things only because others impose them. So sweep away the bad things, and if necessary the people imposing them, and everything will be wonderful.
Those of us with half a brain realize that bad things are the default setting of the universe, that order, peace and prosperity do not generate themselves, but exist only because they are created and maintained by people.
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