A Fourth of July Quiz For The Kids

In one of those "essential" documents that led to the creation of the country known now as the United States of America, there was reference made to "self-evident truth."

What is the name of this essential document, and give an example of a self-evident truth.

Mandated Innovation

Imagine, if you will, being a well educated engineer finding out that whatever his, or her, training was is no longer functional.

Imagine being a trained professional--0ther than a "teacher"--that was told that his outcomes would be directed by a political authority rather than by the investigation of his professional inquiries.

There is no more a conceited class of individuals than our political class. They actually believe that by passing laws mandating change, that they can effect change.

I remember a prof from O.S.U. that wanted us to refer on to him references to mirrors. One of the quotes that I remember had to do with "he stared long enough into the mirror until he turned into a monkey."

Our current political situation reminds me of that observation. And that is, we aren't looking into the mirror, from fear that we will see a monkey. I looked into the mirror tonight, to test the theory. I saw me. I'm not pretty. I'm growing old. I have bags under my eyes and spider veins have broken in my cheeks. Me teeth are yellowing, prolly because I smoke. Or, mebbe, just because I'm getting older. (I noticed a guy older than I this past weekend with "white" teeth. Hella. I smoke, drink and golf. Effim.)

We are afraid of our own humanity. We don't want to grow old. We don't want to die. What an infantile culture we've become.

You are gonna die. Prolly painfully.

But, your death will not have anything to do with whether you are a Leftist or an American. You're gonna die because you grow old. What is the number one cause of cancer? It isn't smoking. It's longevity. The statistical regression between age and cancer isn't one that Al Gore ManBearPig would understand. But it is the one that you either understand, or don't. We can mandate where we want people to die--in terms of their years. What we can't mandate is that people die when it is their time.

Obama Care. When your choices aren't important anymore.

Change.

Kulturny, or Ne Kulturny

There is a moment when one needs ask oneself, "Am I cultured?"

How do you answer that question?

The "kulturny" of the former Soviet Union found themselves outlasted by the fall of the Soviet Union. But, the culture of the kulturny still lives in Russia. There is, at the bottom line, a cultural difference between simply attempting to provide cover for an authoritarianism, and the life of a country.

"Kulturny" is the word the Soviets used to describe the difference between the proletariat and those who governed them. What we're going through with the Leftists attempting to show us the way of the future, and those of us who actually have lives, families and jobs is, we are actually cultured.

Culture was and has been defined as those simply agreed upon civil myths that serve us to a certain politeness within our society. Where the United States has and will fail the new Leftist mythology is upon our insistence that we not only give lip service to the values of our society--our culture--but that we actually put those insistences within our law. Hence, the Constitution.

There is probably not another nation on the Earth that has relied so upon our Constitution. For a a lot of countries, "constitution" is just another way to achieve a lie on a grand, public scale.

We have a different history. Law, and lex supra legis actually has meant something.

Now we are dealing with a critical point in our country's history. Will we maintain our view of the role of lex supra legis, or will we replace the value of law as law, with bending into the wind?

Will we remain a cultured people? I think so. I have faith in the American people. I'm an optimist. We are being tested. There are a lot of folks who believe that the last coupla hundred years were simply flukes. That keeping faith with the culture of America is stupid.

I don't. I believe in the culture of America.

I will not become ne kulturny.