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.