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The world is going insane. $3500, I heard, for a Play Station 3 on E-bay. What is so important, so fascinating on this bit of electronic that so many people have to have one? I'm just not into video games like that. I play once in a while, but I prefer freeware games for the computer. They are usually interesting to play, and cost only the time to download. There are those, sure, that have an advertisement bit with them, but between my antivirus software and spy-bot, I can avoid those easy enough. The nicest thing about freeware is, if the game turns out to be boring, I've lost nothing! I only have to delete it and look for another.
Something has gone really wrong with our society. It's the same in Europe as well. No one wants to perform the simple jobs anymore. America relies on illegal mexicans for manual labor, Western Europe on Eastern Europeans. Germany tried, last summer, to do something against the high unemployment by requiring farmers to hire unemployed Germans for most farm labour positions last year. It failed miserably. The Germans could not do the work! They were simply too spoiled by the riches of modern, western civilization to be capable anymore of the work that was normal just a couple of decades ago.
I read in James Herriots books the reminiscences of an old farm hand that the vet met in the 30s, talking about the "old days", before the tractor. He told of how the men went out with the rising of the sun to work the fields, worked all day with only a short break for lunch, then came home. Upon arriving at the farm house, they fed the horses, ate their supper, then went back out to the barns to take care of the horses. That was every day except Sundays. I've read stories of lumberjacks in turn of the century Maine, who marched into the woods with their axes and saws on their shoulders each morning, and spent the whole day cutting trees. They had only a short break for lunch, and only quit working when it was too dark to continue.
Who today could work like that? We've become soft, weak. We've become too conditioned to the soft life, no more capable of real work than the aristocrats we fought in the revolutionary war. Unless something can change, somehow, we are in the end phase of the American dream, America has become to politically correct, to squeamish, to continue to exist. Our enemies are still comparatively strong; we hold them off only with our technology. But, like the minutemen in 1776, our enemies are finding ways to defeat us despite our advantages. They are hungrier then we are, driven by desire to escape poverty or by religious fire, another virtue lost today in America.
Where is the religious fire that our ancestors felt? No longer is it natural to believe in God, rather the norm is to question everything, including the basic faith that sustained America through 2 centuries.
America needs a revival in Faith in the One God, the great I AM. She needs a revival in the willingness of her citizens to work hard, long hours, with more vision for getting the job done rather than for the financial rewards.
Something has gone really wrong with our society. It's the same in Europe as well. No one wants to perform the simple jobs anymore. America relies on illegal mexicans for manual labor, Western Europe on Eastern Europeans. Germany tried, last summer, to do something against the high unemployment by requiring farmers to hire unemployed Germans for most farm labour positions last year. It failed miserably. The Germans could not do the work! They were simply too spoiled by the riches of modern, western civilization to be capable anymore of the work that was normal just a couple of decades ago.
I read in James Herriots books the reminiscences of an old farm hand that the vet met in the 30s, talking about the "old days", before the tractor. He told of how the men went out with the rising of the sun to work the fields, worked all day with only a short break for lunch, then came home. Upon arriving at the farm house, they fed the horses, ate their supper, then went back out to the barns to take care of the horses. That was every day except Sundays. I've read stories of lumberjacks in turn of the century Maine, who marched into the woods with their axes and saws on their shoulders each morning, and spent the whole day cutting trees. They had only a short break for lunch, and only quit working when it was too dark to continue.
Who today could work like that? We've become soft, weak. We've become too conditioned to the soft life, no more capable of real work than the aristocrats we fought in the revolutionary war. Unless something can change, somehow, we are in the end phase of the American dream, America has become to politically correct, to squeamish, to continue to exist. Our enemies are still comparatively strong; we hold them off only with our technology. But, like the minutemen in 1776, our enemies are finding ways to defeat us despite our advantages. They are hungrier then we are, driven by desire to escape poverty or by religious fire, another virtue lost today in America.
Where is the religious fire that our ancestors felt? No longer is it natural to believe in God, rather the norm is to question everything, including the basic faith that sustained America through 2 centuries.
America needs a revival in Faith in the One God, the great I AM. She needs a revival in the willingness of her citizens to work hard, long hours, with more vision for getting the job done rather than for the financial rewards.
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