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"The Underrated Gift of Sanity"

i'm a single mom, and i often DONT feel heroic, or buy into the meme your link alludes to.

rather, i feel:

- pressed for time to do all the tasks normally spread over 2 people's lives
- the need to apologize when i had to leave work on time to pick my daughter up from day care when she was younger.
- worry that i'm not in as close touch as i should be with my daughter's friends and social life, to be confident she's not stumbling into situations out of her depth
- as i have to fend off too forward advances of "interested gentlemen" who assume that as a single mom i will be desperate and grateful for anything the have to offer, physically.

none of this, of course has put blinders on me so that I can only gaze to the left.

i try to approach issues - and people in my life - on their merits (or demerits) and realize that simply because i disagree on one topic doesn't mean that person is harboring all the bad traits your link says invariably travel together.

the place where i am most often pigeonholed or stereotyped is on a political blog like this, where as soon as someone finds out i voted republican, they assume

  • I'm a fundamentalist christian (actually, i'm secular)
  • i favor abortion (i favor reproductive choice - overturning roe v wade won't stop abortions. but i believe roe was a mistake, and issues like this need a constitutional amendment, not a narrow 5-4 decision on ideological lines)
  • that i favor huge military expenditures (actually, with over 2,500 military bases around the globe, we clearly have missed some opportunities for consolidation and mission streamlining. even microsoft doesn't have this many locations)
  • that i'm against legalized narcotics (I am, and so are my of my co-workers, irrespective of political affiliation)
  • that i earn a high income. I do not. I made less than $70,000 in 2014 (im doing my taxes now. thank you turbotax). i make about what a policeman or teacher does in this city. but unlike them i can't expect an automatic cost of living increase each year, health insurance with no deductables and minimal monthly contributions out of my own paycheck, or a pensions that's indexed to inflation and constantly rises. when i hit 67 the money i get on the first month will the same i get on my last.
 
freyasman said:
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-underrated-gift-of-sanity.html
A blog post I came across that I rather enjoyed ;). Tell me what ya'll think...
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Wow, I LOVED it. So true. So completely true about the pampering and the egos. And, basically how that has made us spoiled babies. How feminism convinced millions of women that they would only be happier if they had a career - and now millions of women are trying to say, yeah.. you know what - being a wife and a mother is all I need to make me happy - and continuing to be beaten down in the Mommy Wars for that.

And, SOOOOOOO right about idle hands. That in and of itself is the cause. We don't spend near enough time actually working to survive, so we have all sorts of time to make up problems. And, then we like to act like those problems are as serious as any other problems generations before faced. Its like the people today acting like they may not get a cake baked for them because they are gay - when 200 years ago they would have been tarred and feathered. Dude - put that shit into perspective. You do not have a right to have your every desire fulfilled by someone else.

And, I completely agree with the take on the now demanding of medical services. Even 100 years ago - "medical services" would have largely consisted of trying to make you comfortable while you died. And, yet, we demand that people who have spent countless hours of their time, their blood sweat and tears, give us something that may help us - for fee because we deserve it by our existence.

I am not exactly sure how we got here. but I blame my grandparents generation - who raised the baby boomers. Because the boomers were the first spoiled brats, and their parents - could have or should have made life harder on them so they would understand the sacrifice that they made,, and their parents before them made, just to barely have enough damn food to eat.

It makes me fear for our survival as a country and as a race, because we have no clue how to survive the suckage that can come. What will happen if there is a nuclear attack here? What will happen if our electrical grid goes down. Literally - as soft and as whiney as we are it will be a few days at most before complete and total chaos erupts. But, even barely two generations ago... those same conditions were simply the normal conditions the vast majority of people lived under. And many of them thought they had it good.


connie
 
marvin martian said:
Haha, you and I read the same blogs, I saw this one yesterday, too!:cool:
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I actually never saw that blog before.... Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man had a link to it in one of his recent posts. http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2015/04/of-hugo-awards-liberals-and-sad-puppies.html
I was already familiar with "Sad Puppies", as I am a huge fan of Larry Correia, as well as several of his friends like Michael Z. Williamson (can't recommend "Freehold" highly enough; it should be required reading in every school in the country.)
 
freyasman said:
I actually never saw that blog before.... Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man had a link to it in one of his recent posts. http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2015/04/of-hugo-awards-liberals-and-sad-puppies.html
I was already familiar with "Sad Puppies", as I am a huge fan of Larry Correia, as well as several of his friends like Michael Z. Williamson (can't recommend "Freehold" highly enough; it should be required reading in every school in the country.)
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I can appreciate a well articulated point of view even if I don't agree with the perspective on every point. Without hyperbole, we can find a lot more points of agreement and argue the rest with reason. He didn't feel the need to rely on "liberals think" as a premise to tap the anger. That was refreshing.
 
zzigzzag said:
I can appreciate a well articulated point of view even if I don't agree with the perspective on every point. Without hyperbole, we can find a lot more points of agreement and argue the rest with reason. He didn't feel the need to rely on "liberals think" as a premise to tap the anger. That was refreshing.
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This is somewhat off-topic, but I'm re-reading "Crazyhead" by John Klawitter, and the setting made me think of you ;). You ever read it? If not, give it a try..... it's available on Kindle.
 
connieb said:
Wow, I LOVED it. So true. So completely true about the pampering and the egos. And, basically how that has made us spoiled babies. How feminism convinced millions of women that they would only be happier if they had a career - and now millions of women are trying to say, yeah.. you know what - being a wife and a mother is all I need to make me happy - and continuing to be beaten down in the Mommy Wars for that.

And, SOOOOOOO right about idle hands. That in and of itself is the cause. We don't spend near enough time actually working to survive, so we have all sorts of time to make up problems. And, then we like to act like those problems are as serious as any other problems generations before faced. Its like the people today acting like they may not get a cake baked for them because they are gay - when 200 years ago they would have been tarred and feathered. Dude - put that shit into perspective. You do not have a right to have your every desire fulfilled by someone else.

And, I completely agree with the take on the now demanding of medical services. Even 100 years ago - "medical services" would have largely consisted of trying to make you comfortable while you died. And, yet, we demand that people who have spent countless hours of their time, their blood sweat and tears, give us something that may help us - for fee because we deserve it by our existence.

I am not exactly sure how we got here. but I blame my grandparents generation - who raised the baby boomers. Because the boomers were the first spoiled brats, and their parents - could have or should have made life harder on them so they would understand the sacrifice that they made,, and their parents before them made, just to barely have enough damn food to eat.

It makes me fear for our survival as a country and as a race, because we have no clue how to survive the suckage that can come. What will happen if there is a nuclear attack here? What will happen if our electrical grid goes down. Literally - as soft and as whiney as we are it will be a few days at most before complete and total chaos erupts. But, even barely two generations ago... those same conditions were simply the normal conditions the vast majority of people lived under. And many of them thought they had it good.


connie
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I found this a few minutes ago; http://finance.yahoo.com/news/biggest-outrage-atlanta-crazy-teacher-091500508.html
The comparison of who gets held accountable for wrongdoing, and who gets a pass, is one of my biggest issues with our society. Glad to see there's more folks out there who see it, as well.
 
freyasman said:
This is somewhat off-topic, but I'm re-reading "Crazyhead" by John Klawitter, and the setting made me think of you ;). You ever read it? If not, give it a try..... it's available on Kindle.
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I meant to mash the "thanks" button on my phone. (Corrected. I have wide fingers. I was at work.)

Never heard of it. The blurb on Amazon is pretty compelling, though.

Now, I have to read it to see what the hell you're saying about me. Eh....I'm overdue to read a book.

Diabolical.
 
The blogger's perspective is defeatist, sick sad 'n sorry, an utterly unnecessary. It's just one more example of how a certain cohort loves to wallow in its own chosen misery.

A few years back, I took a class in Global Economics from a highly-regarded professor who was an Indian national. At one point in class, a student raised the fact that India is graduating the same number of STEM students, as is the United States....and, wasn't this a problem for America?

That professor was unequivocal in his NO. First, he reminded that student that India is 4x the size of America and therefore - per capita - it was graduating only 1/4th the STEM students. Much more importantly I think though, he made the point that those STEM students were ALL that India was graduating. India didn't graduate students into non-career paths, because there was no upside or way of making a living in India, for a student graduating in some sort of Liberal Arts field.

In case anyone's wondering, some 7,000 of the 11,000 college/universities in the entire WORLD, are right here in the United States. That they're here AND that America has the luxury, richness, and beauty of their being able to exist here, is just one of those things that makes the United States of America the greatest society that's ever existed.
 
zzigzzag said:
I meant to mash the "thanks" button on my phone. (Corrected. I have wide fingers. I was at work.)

Never heard of it. The blurb on Amazon is pretty compelling, though.

Now, I have to read it to see what the hell you're saying about me. Eh....I'm overdue to read a book.

Diabolical.
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It's set in Saigon during the war, but it's not really a "war" novel..... I found a paperback copy in a used bookstore probably 12 or 15 years ago and enjoyed the hell out of it. Turns out it was out of print for several years, and the rumor is that was due to it pissing off a LOT of people.
 
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