John Adams - Declaration of Independence

Hello fellow citizens. I'm posting these thoughts in response to a conversation that started with one of my Xango and Facebook friends. She had posted a video from YouTube showing a tiny excerpt from the awesome mini-series from HBO named "John Adams".

I am posting my threads in order to give my readers a chance to read the entire post since the length restrictions on FB are a bit limiting.

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Just finished seeing the HBO series. It is more than awesome! Many facts most of us do not know. This country almost didn't happen. A must for any citizen to see what people with a dream are made of. Sad to see how careless and complacent we have become; taking everything for granted and complaining about everything without offering any solutions. What happened to the American spirit not only our ancestors died for but the whole world looked up to?

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Yes it was titled rightfully so "John Adams". Since the author, McCullough, researched all the material available and paints the picture of Adams & Jefferson creating the "American Spirit" based on French forthoughts (the French Revolution was just a bit earlier). But Adams being the true protector of this country by being the only one bold, selflessness and integer enough to stay on course of the declaration of independence in the beginnings and staying away from bonding with either English or French that asked in return for help in their devastating war that would have destroyed this young and fragile government. And the Germans were the ones that turned around Washington's loosing battles after the New York disaster. So let's never be lead by too much pride and forget who helped us get here. The spirit & democracy is what counts and needs to be fought for by all of us every day. We have forgotten. It's a shame that Adams has never been given the honor to appear on any dollar bill.

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For everyone reading this postings, get the HBO DVD series "John Adams" today! Buy it or get it at your library for free. If you don't see anything else this year, watch this educational and enlightening masterpiece and find out how lucky we are, since this beautiful society and country we live in had almost not come to life. See it - you owe it to yourself, your family, your ancestors, your country. Happy 4th of July!

Democracy is not a given...

... it's not a gift. Yes, most of us were born into a Disneyland and Hamburger world. But these luxuries were fought and paid for with endless numbers of lives. Your ancestors! It's time you started to care again. We need to reclaim values and a sustainable attitude. Alternative resources are not a choice any more. Much less greed and ignorance is needed. Americans seem to know little to nothing about the rest of the world. Nor do we show to care unless gas prices start to climb or some country, whose name we can't even pronounce correctly, seizes to give us more of what we need most: oil. Up next on the list is drinkable water and non-toxic food resources. Watch the PBS channel for a change and get some perspective on other realities. 

Why do you think this country has so many challenges? Why do you think the world despises the American attitude these days? We have become selfish, ignorant and careless - taking, taking, taking. And meanwhile we are loosing our freedom to blind consumption and complacency. Closed-mindedness, pride, false and uncritical patriotism has brought the most terrifying tyrants to the world - be aware and don't think it can't happen right here. These things don't just pop up and jump into your face. They are not immediately and clearly visible. It's a slow and gradual development. You lose rights, you loose interest, a little war here some patriot act there (hardly anyone responsible read it before signing it!). You're busy with your own little daily rat race and one day, you are not even allowed to grow your own tomatoes in your garden because the food and pharma industry have patented everything and taken over the country and the world. Food police! Think of it. If you control oil (energy in general) food production and distribution and pharma (the stuff that made you sick will force you to buy more bad stuff, not to cure but to keep you sick), ergo - you control everything. 

America will seize to exist the we way we know it, if we go on like this. What happened to the land of the brave and the free? It has become the land of the greedy and ignorant. The American spirit, the world once admired and fought for, has almost vanished. Let's re-instill our code of honor and become the leaders & visionaries we once were. But that would mean you'd need to gather some courage, get out of your couch and actually change something - your attitude.