What is help? Do We Need it?
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Abject ruin, that’s what we’re coming to. We have become a benighted nation; one that’s in a state of intellectual and moral ignorance, one overtaken by darkness. When I look around what I see is far beyond the pale; drug abuse, violence, protests, political upheaval, rancor and divisiveness running rampant in our nation. Blackguards of politics, chaos merchants in the media, and the wealthy war mongers of the military-industrial complex, are sending our beloved America to perdition by way of copious disenfranchisement. We, the American people, are becoming nothing more than serfs. Have we no value? Is our destiny to be nothing but slaves to plutocrats, the rich and powerful? Didn’t our ancestors run precipitously from that centuries ago?
So, what can be done about it? We need to build a better civilization. And how do we go about that? Each and every one of us has to reach deep and find compassion for our fellows, even the aforementioned rapscallions. Have love and understanding in our hearts. We need to take responsibility for ourselves, our families, our friends, and even those we don’t know or don’t like. The time of misanthropy has to come to an end, or it will be the end to us all.
This doesn’t mean you have to give the “capable” bum on the street your money. It doesn’t mean the taxman should confiscate your wealth. What it means is that everyone should extend the hand of succor ¾ in whatever form or fashion. Let me give you an example.
I have two friends who run a retreat for people that have been harmed by psychiatry. Children that have been put on psychotropic drugs. Adults that have had partial lobotomies or shock treatment. Or simply others who have had some variant of psychological trauma or malady. They are not wealthy people; my friends. They simply want to help others.
Anyway, the wife thought of giving lectures in schools to help prevent children from falling into the hands of such villains. And using their own resources they worked long and hard to get at least one school’s attention. Their first presentation started off with a handful of participants. Then they did two. By the time they did the third they had an audience of twenty or so. They recruited other speakers, including myself, and then took to other venues; reform schools, detention facilities, et al. They even talked me into participating in a seminar at a drug rehabilitation center. My point here is simple ¾ everyone can do something to help others, to correct the injustices and atrocities of our social tragedies. It isn’t always about money, whether giving or having it taken away.
When you look out across the land one sees people who have very little hope that anything can be done about anything. A true measure of a civilization, however, would be the measure of those within that society who have an expectancy of being able to change the individuals or groups of their society. One may say such a thing as “I don’t know what I can do.” Or “I don’t know enough to help anyone else.” How many times have you heard someone, maybe even yourself, say, “why do something, it doesn’t change anything anyway.” Well, the absolute wrong thing to do would be to do nothing. Merely writing these words and posting them on the Internet is doing something. If nothing else it’s bringing attention to, in part, what the malaise of our nation is comprised of. If these words were to inspire, or get one individual to reach out and help another, I have done something.
When one just sits back and complains about his plight, our plight, he is to that degree falling out of communication with society. When his communication is mitigated, his affinity for others is diminished. An example would be the close friend you grew up with and talked to every day, the one that moved away upon turning eighteen. Then, some years later, you see him at a high-school reunion. Do you now have the same affinity for him since your communication has gone by the wayside for so many years? Also, when one’s communication and affinity are ebbed, the reality for his environment and those within it becomes less real. One of the many reasons violent acts are so rife in our society today is because each individual, as individuals, don’t think they can do anything to stop them.
One way to help your fellow man is to let him know you are not going to abandon him. Another is to enlighten him as to what pro-survival activities are and help him achieve them. Give him a job, or help him find a job. Educate him, or help him get an education. Maybe give him an inspirational book, or simply take him to church with you one day. Give all those you come into contact with positive experiences, it’s like being a mentor for a child — people need mentors too.
Merely having the government tax us heavily only to squander the money on things like the Murtha airport, GM bailout, Soylndra, paying states to enact laws the federal government use to control us, such as the helmet law the federal government pays $20 million a year to Tennessee to enforce, will never work. Why, as tax payers, do we have to pay other countries to be our friends? Can’t we just do the right thing and have people like us, care about us as we do them? Why do we continually support a Federal Education Board that does almost nothing? Paying people millions of dollars in retirement benefits after twenty years of public service isn’t helping our less fortunate ¾ is it? There is a myriad of wasteful programs the government supports and spends our money on because they think they “know best.”
It is up to us to fill the void and get the government to quit spending money that‘s not really theirs. The more capable need not give all their wealth. This is what creates some of the contention between our job creators and those who want something for nothing. Those that can think, those who are more capable, if they only applied what they knew, communicated what they knew, to other individuals or groups, they would cut a wide swath of positive gains in the direction of human lethargy ¾ and that could not help but create a far greater civilization for us all.