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Posted on 04/27/2025 5:14:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the real world, governments aren’t cute and cuddly. They’re monsters.
There is a sentence that has long bothered me. It is treated as a piece of universal wisdom that humans gain with experience, and surely every member of a modern, industrial society has heard it in some form. Whether spoken by a close friend or complete stranger, its utterance usually comes with a sly grin that invites the listener to reconsider a fundamental belief. Here it is: That’s not how the real world works.
That dirty, little sentence slithers into conversations meant to turn a person’s perception of reality upside down. We hear it when we question why people who commit the same criminal offenses are often punished differently. We hear it when we question why less qualified people are admitted to schools or offered jobs to other applicants’ detriment. We hear it when we question why certain businesses always seem to get government contracts, even when they routinely overcharge and underperform. We learn that laws, merit, moral character, and hard work exist alongside nepotism, prejudice, favoritism, corruption, and other invisible factors that magnify or hinder individual opportunity.
What’s particularly strange about this lesson is that most of us do not learn it firsthand until we have neared the end of our teenaged years. For those who have been fortunate enough to grow up in good families with loving parents committed to moral principles, it can be jarring to step into the “real world” to discover a society awash with malign influences and untruths.
An eighteen-year-old who joins the military is inclined to believe that the government would never recklessly endanger servicemembers’ lives; military life, however, quickly teaches that reckless endangerment is a large part of the job.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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That’s not how the real world works.
Dream on.
A wise imperative.
Shurk ends with "If we want to change that, we must teach the youngest generations that freedom — not government — is worth preserving." Indeed.
A free society is not a safe society.
People crave safety. In part, because the media teaches everyone to live in fear of something. The world is such a scary place, many people demand that government get bigger and bigger to ensure that no bad thing ever happens to anyone.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
— Ben Franklin
19th amendment
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
Your post also hints that female teachers may not be the best choice to teach students about liberty and responsibility.
Lol.
True ... But the schools are infested with them.
Rule one—never trust the government.
(Yes, it's a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" but some of us yet preach to the heathens there :-)
Interesting assertion. Will read completely and comment more. Initial reaction is a that Christians are bondservants to our living Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If we subordinate ourselves and our governments: family, church, employers, local, state and national or other, to our King, we secure our beloved and precious freedoms.
Isaiah 9
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Matthew 28
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen
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