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I was reading a little into the American Revolution (for my history class) and it got to talking about the Bill of Rights. It talked about how these twelve plus ten rights granted freedom of speech, religion, press. You're garunteed trial by jury, protection from unlawful searches, and the right to bear arms. It went on to say that the American Revolution was, to many philosophes (yes, philosophes, look it up), the perfect society envisioned by enlightemnet thinkers.
As I was reading the first part, I just kept thinking, "what a load of crap" Don't get me wrong, i'm extremely greatful that we have these rights, but so many of them have been compromised in today's society. States want to ban firearms, authority can get around search warrents, and so on.
When I read the part about the philosophes thinking that this was supposed to be the perfect society, I felt pity and also some anger.
I felt pity, because this is in no way a perfect society. I love America, but it's true. Look at where we've come from and look where we're going. Parents are afraid to discipline their children, they grow up in a world of disrespect and expect things to be handed to them on a sliver platter. We've become so lazy with our on demand world that we've become too fat to get off the internet, turn off the ipod, put the cell phone on silent (it's there for a reason, jackasses!) and look. Just look! At anything, as long as it isn't from fricken google images! Go outside! Smell the breeze, look at the sun. Hell, stay inside! Talk to your parents or kids, read, cook, do something!
But that isn't what I wanted to write about.
To the second emotion, anger, I again, looked at out world. Our founding fathers gave us these wonderful ideas to live by, and look at how we've tarnished them. Protesters gather, for what? Do they think they're doing anything or helping in any way? They protest the impeachment of our leaders, their thanks for the death of our soldiers, and shove their beliefs out for all to see and just make others angry. The right to bear arms has turned into a slaughter house. They've fallen into the wrong hands. They've fallen into the hands of people who use them for malice or of the people who don't know how to use them at all. Those that do know how to use them think that throwing more guns into the equation will somehow make it better. The right to a trial by jury has left most of our money in the hands of greedy lawyers who get criminals off the hook or keep them on the hook so long that everyone forgets about them.
Our government has become centralized on dividing the power just equally enough so that nothing gets done. America's people have become greedy and lazy, wanting everything to be provided by the government. We want our food to be paid for with foodstamps, we want our healthcare to be provided for free, we want to be paid to not work with unemployment, and we want to pawn our children off on government services and leave it to them to teach them morals and respect because, hey, you didn't really want them in the first place right? And God forbid you actually get married and have children in wedlock, because everyone knows that with us feminists, we have to make it so damn hard for men meanwhile the sanctity of marrige is going down the toliet since the definition of it was apparently changed from 'until death' to 'until bored' while no one was looking.
And I think, is this what the enlightenment thinkers thought was the perfect society?
I'm not going to ask what's happened to America, because America is an idea. America still represents freedom for all, and for everything. So, what's happened to the American people?
I know the original purpose of these rights. This is not it.
 Qua Quidam · Thu May 01, 2008 @ 12:51am · 2 Comments |
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