What happened to all of us we’ve seemed to have changed from we can do anything as an individual or country to say what is on you mind and the political correctness of what you say. It seems that our free speech is being curtailed or controlled by others opinions. Because they are offended by our thinking our output of thought our opinions, instead it is no don’t think that. That thinking is wrong. That thinking might offend someone. IN the Berry Decision, it was illegal for an artist to sell their art on the streets of New York City. The United States Supreme Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the artists on all arguments. In the 11 page document, they state that art is a language that universal.
Like the street sign that is a picture of a bike for a bike lane. No matter what language you speak, you know what that lane is for.
When does the offensive become a right to offend others by what they think? It’s their opinion to have. We all have one. The difference between offending someone or not is raising it or not. Didn’t you ever hear “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say naything at all.” That today unfortunately, is not the case. Only because these days Silence is not golden. The LORD says “ Judge not, lest ye be judged.” If no one knows you personally they can’t judge you. The visible strive to be invisible so they can’t be judged. Now, with our social power of being faceless, anonymous like Facebook, Twitter, etc, and the drive bys the ole hit and run what used to be Do unto others as you would have then do unto you has unfortunately turned into I can do anything because I can and there is nothing you can do about it. This personal power that makes one seem to have control over others is in time going to backfire on them because when they try to recruit others to have the same opinion about you the will run into others that aren’t followers. They can think for themselves. They are independent thinkers, not sheep led to the slaughter. The Stupid think their opinions don’t matter to others because others don’t have their own. The Smart know that silence is golden. That an opinionated blabbermouth is just that -Blah Blah Blah . Sounds like the sheep to me.
When I heard fly with the eagles or swim with the fishes, I asked, “Is that about being above it all?” Is it our symbol of the powerful feeding on the schools of fish? It isn’t what comes to mind. But when we see the astounding beauty of an eagle swooping down and so gracefully clawing a fish out of the water some will still only think of the agony of the fish torn away from its environment, ripped with claws not flying through the are to be eaten.
Do we teach our children to see the beauty of the grace of the eagle or the torture of the fish? Or do we teach them they cycle of life and that the eagle only kills what it eats and that some fish never get eaten. Man may have learned how the fish by watching the eagle. What we teach or children is what our future is determined to be. Maybe I’m the fish teaching them about eagles or I’m the eagle teaching them about fish. If I’m the eagle the eagle I’m teaching them about which fish to eat, what time of day is best, etc, If I’m the fish, I’m teaching them there is safety in numbers, “Don’t go near the surface.”
Our human condition does not stop at human nature. What we’ve been taught or what we have learned on our own What we have experienced in life is what we contribute to our future and to the future of all mankind. When we lose the ability to filter out the ridiculous, blah, blah, blah we lose the ability to cope with ourselves.
The day after Christmas I lost my mother. At the gravesite, I put my carnation on her and said, “ You’ve done right by me.” What I was taught by her was that if you want to be the fish, be the fish. If you want to be the eagle, be the eagle that my life is what I make it and that no one can take away from me.
PS She raised three of us with no child support working two and three jobs never taking any help from anyone.
Job well done mom..
Love
Craig Hunter
