REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
GENERAL TOPICS => Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant => Topic started by: Nate on February 25, 2015, 12:51:04 PM
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the numbers may not reflect todays issues, but the message is what is important!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
and here is a little motivation video done to this speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDVT-8tUfiE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hY1eagq88
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Honestly, i wish i knew what the answer to your question was: "What's it going to take?"
Best case, it will happen organically. Another swing of the pendulum towards conservatism, both with societal values and governmental leadership.
Worst case, something catastrophic, with one against the other, and one prevails.
One of the biggest problems in my relatively young opinion, is people are naive and uninformed, especially in my generation. People just don't care, and are happy bee-bopping along without consideration for these issues of incredible significance. 17 trillion in debt, and i bet you 80+% of the population couldn't tell you that, or how big that is relative to GDP (or what GDP is!). Lack of knowledge/understanding of basic incentive driven economics, lack of strong will and personal accountability, and weak reliance on one's self for one's self. If people people paid as much attention to things that matter (personal privacy, tax burdens, trade policy, national debt and unmitigated spending) to things that don't (sports fanaticism, material consumption, celebrity infatuation), you'd probably see more concerned citizens.
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Until something disrupts the average person's daily lives directly, action will not be taken by the masses. What we need is something that takes away their access to facebook, instagram, or american idol. Then and only then will these sheep get active.
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You sayin' no FB...
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Like the Libs would ever allow the Internet to go down! Gotta keep the constant drip of electronic sedatives flowing! Besides being able to spoon feed the masses the OFFICIAL news stories! ;D