If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggrievement and entitlement, and you still won’t have a job.
— Condaleeza Rice
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ROFLMAO Yeah! That about sums up reading Richard Adam’s Watership Down for the first time. I remember first reading it as a child – I was 9 or 10 I think – and “Fucking Hell!” pretty much sums up my thoughts about the story at the time. I’m not sure if I had any expectations, but what I got sure wasn’t whatever I did expect!
Sadly, this sums up the core worries of Democrat parents – if they can be rightly called that – today. Their children using drugs and/or alcohol at young ages doesn’t strongly concern them. But, oh how critical or independent thought being shown by their young sets them right off!
These days, Dems raising children – more and more normally a single mother with no father in evidence or even known – would be less angry and horrified by their child not transitioning into another sex than finding out that they read anything by Ayn Rand!
The only bright side of this is that it is a self-correcting problem and one that won’t last much longer in the scope of history. For that, at least, Americans can be thankful. We and our nation can weather this storm by playing the long game and just doing what comes naturally.
Ah, yoga. It’s always been about centering and calming the mind, body, and soul. And, with a few variations, even works in these days. 😆 So, light up that Old Book Smell candle and be well.
Yes. That’s what I do. I read books of all sorts. I drink coffee in what most would consider improperly copious amounts. And I know things, things both sublime and uplifting and things dark, noisome, and soul-staining.
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