Preserving American Values
Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.
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We are a country that is obsessed with the future, with facilitating the next phase of our “progress.” In the process, we have lost our collective, our societal mooring to what has made the United States a great social and political experiment. As I’ve noted in previous posts, our society is dysfunctional in many…
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For the last few decades, certainly since President Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork, the nomination and confirmation process of Supreme Court and lower Federal court justices has been political theater. It was not always so. Chief Justice Roberts stated in a recent talk reported in The New York Times that earlier in the 20th century “The Court was…
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In my post, “The Problem Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Our Society,” (under American Culture), I noted that the social problems in all modern societies (and most ancient ones, for that matter) don’t stem from their particular economic system – whether it’s capitalism or socialism or communism – regardless how much people rant and rave about it.…
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People often rant against the evils of capitalism … exploitation of workers, people in general, and the environment. But the problem is not so much capitalism as the social structure in which capitalism has operated. In the United States. the structure has been one which exalted individualism and correspondingly had a laissez faire attitude towards…
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America is a great country. But we are slipping. If we want to remain great, we need to grow a stronger America. America must become more self-sufficient. It must do everything it can to create a better educated, healthier, more engaged citizenry and rebuild a strong middle class. And it must either replace or repair…
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America has a failed economic/social/political system. I did not use the word “broken” because America has never reached its promise, never fulfilled its potential. What is the promise of America? It’s found in the words of the Declaration of Independence … “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…
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The United States prides itself in being a technologically advanced country, a leader in the technology revolution, and yet our transportation system is archaic. It is based primarily on a mode of transportation … the car and truck … that was developed a century ago and that technologically has not progressed much in the intervening…
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A friend of mine said once that whenever anyone walked through the doors of our Buddhist temple, it was because they were suffering and they were seeking a path to end their suffering. That is probably a statement that can be made of all religions. n the past, when true faith in God was high, most…
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I have written in previous posts how all abuse and violence stems from man’s insecurity, and further that it is the cause of all social conflict and war. Insecurity is destructive. I have also written a book, Raising a Happy Child, that posits that this insecurity is not inherent in man’s nature but learned. And…
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In recent years, observers in the United States have noted that the rich feel that they have no obligation for anyone else’s welfare. In third world countries such as Angola (I just saw a shocking documentary about Angola, but the same could be said of many 3rd world countries, especially in Africa), the disregard of…
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