Some 40 plus years ago I had a conversation with a prison Warden. I remember him saying that a busy prisoner is a happy prisoner, so he liked to keep them busy and out of trouble.
Obviously our youth and population are not prisoners, (someone should tell that to some of our political leaders), however, as I look at all the unrest and violent behavior going on, I have to recall that conversation & consider the parallels.
Somehow, the insanity that is requiring an unvaccinated person to receive a vaccine to protect already vaccinated people from getting the disease against which they've already been vaccinated, has never occurred to government officials or teachers or shop owners.
When the Soviet Union fell, I was impressed that Orthodox Christianity could so immediately and so strongly appear in a population after nearly 3 generations of government-enforced atheism (of the most stupid kind). I thought that persistence remarkable.
But now enter Canada (and the US), where, after 250 years of culture based on freedom of thought, of conscience, of speech, and of person, we see the immediate emergence and embrace of oppression and tyranny by so many of that same population. All it took was a little governmental and social encouragement. The persistence of cruel oppression running beneath a culture of freedom. Certain people seemed eager to jump at the sudden opportunity to bully free-thinkers.
We've learned a deep lesson about humans. It should be brought out and discussed openly. So that, never again!
As someone who’s 78 years old I want to apologize to the young people that went through this insane time of Covid restrictions. My entire generation failed to preserve the hard-fought freedoms generations prior to mine forfeited so many lives to pass on to us. They died to ensure that Hitler’s vision did not become today’s history. Regrettably, too few of us failed to see that a smiling face with pretty hair can also have dictatorial aspirations.
I went to Europe in ‘18, visited some well-kept cemeteries in Holland .and made the trip to Normandy and Dieppe. Saw the crosses , row on row, unending human carnage. It reminded me that we humans have a tragic propensity to place a crown on the insane. Hopefully, one day we may learn to accurately assess the mental state of those we put in charge?
Some 40 plus years ago I had a conversation with a prison Warden. I remember him saying that a busy prisoner is a happy prisoner, so he liked to keep them busy and out of trouble.
Obviously our youth and population are not prisoners, (someone should tell that to some of our political leaders), however, as I look at all the unrest and violent behavior going on, I have to recall that conversation & consider the parallels.
Somehow, the insanity that is requiring an unvaccinated person to receive a vaccine to protect already vaccinated people from getting the disease against which they've already been vaccinated, has never occurred to government officials or teachers or shop owners.
When the Soviet Union fell, I was impressed that Orthodox Christianity could so immediately and so strongly appear in a population after nearly 3 generations of government-enforced atheism (of the most stupid kind). I thought that persistence remarkable.
But now enter Canada (and the US), where, after 250 years of culture based on freedom of thought, of conscience, of speech, and of person, we see the immediate emergence and embrace of oppression and tyranny by so many of that same population. All it took was a little governmental and social encouragement. The persistence of cruel oppression running beneath a culture of freedom. Certain people seemed eager to jump at the sudden opportunity to bully free-thinkers.
We've learned a deep lesson about humans. It should be brought out and discussed openly. So that, never again!
As someone who’s 78 years old I want to apologize to the young people that went through this insane time of Covid restrictions. My entire generation failed to preserve the hard-fought freedoms generations prior to mine forfeited so many lives to pass on to us. They died to ensure that Hitler’s vision did not become today’s history. Regrettably, too few of us failed to see that a smiling face with pretty hair can also have dictatorial aspirations.
After touring a number of Canadian military cemeteries over in France back in 2017 - I totally agree with you Garret- Do Sad my Friend.
I went to Europe in ‘18, visited some well-kept cemeteries in Holland .and made the trip to Normandy and Dieppe. Saw the crosses , row on row, unending human carnage. It reminded me that we humans have a tragic propensity to place a crown on the insane. Hopefully, one day we may learn to accurately assess the mental state of those we put in charge?