The biggest issue I have with using the web to research history , or anything of importance in today's society is the people that decide what's at the TOP of the search page are the ones feeding all the new propaganda lies and misinformation. You have to already know the answer you seek and thumb down 3 pages to find something that resembled the true you already know. History BOOKS are where the things we were taught are still available. Internet crap spins the direction silicon valley deems necessary.All I can say is that there is a difference between using technology to augment our intake of information, and using technology to substitute the human experience. I think that is the defining attribute to the millennial divide. We are either in the matrix, or we aren't.
The ones that are plugged in are posting on facebook for likes and shares- and that will be the extent of their social interaction (which is one of a false ubiquity) The only reality they know is through a screen. The millennials who aren't plugged into the matrix are using this technological interface to learn about things like the fall of Rome, the American revolution, the science and nature of mankind as it relates to the world we live in-
I live by this philosophy here:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain".
John Adams
I think it's been handed down generation to generation. At one time it was the true that whites held minorities back, obviously. The problem is, that same sad truth is still taught generationally as a current truth. Its not . In fact, if you really want to put a fine point on it in today's society the opposite is closer to the truth. People of color have a better chance to get scholarships to college, or Grant's to start a business, or any number of other perks. Try to get disability as a white person and tell me how that goes for you. Why do you recon Elisabeth Warren tried to pass herself off as an American Indian? It dang sure wasn't so she could see what it was like to be down trodden!Is that kind of like survivors guilt ?
I will pray for ya .I'M still trying to get VA benefits they told me if you make over 40,000.00 you don't qualify talk about how well socialism works how will it be this fall when I'm old enough to apply for medicare .
I'M still trying to get VA benefits they told me if you make over 40,000.00 you don't qualify talk about how well socialism works how will it be this fall when I'm old enough to apply for medicare .
SENSE!The most important thing is to recognize your service but I need to ask, how much help are you getting from the private sector? My point is this, if you lived in Switzerland or several other countries, you'd be taken care of in a first class facility, period, all due to their socialized policies. Here in the US, we waste our tax base to the extent that socialized policies cannot work well. To blindly say that socialized policies do not work, or that it even equates to communism in any way, is incorrect and pure fallacy. I can easily say that, to be in the middle class in the US means you're going to be milked and it's been that way for at least 50 years. What has that got to do with socialism? Just my opinion.
On the few days here before Memorial Day, I'd like to challenge the post title... how can one be a fellow American, whose family members may have fought for our country's freedoms including yours, and still be "an enemy?" I never used to believe it but now it is clear to me... there are those that separate us by means of convoluted arguments, that somehow leave out everything we've all fought for, every bit if racial reconciliation we've made or any other common American trait that we all stand for. I believe that America is much bigger than our political or ideological differences and always has been.
I asked for disability because my wife asked that I do so. The reason ? Our kids college money we had worked so hard to save was flowing out of our accounts just to live. We both worked hard and PAID INTO this security net. I , a grow man with as much pride as anyone on this sight, cried on the paper as I filled out my first request for disability . Now I feel like a fool for asking for help. I'm white, and therefore I'm the provider for this country. I should have known better than to ask for help, didnt want to anyway.
Just don't tell me that I'm previliged in someway , that is, other than being previliged to live in what still is the greatest country on the planet.