Some Thoughts

I was riding around the back yard today on the garden tractor pulling a tank of liquid spraying to kill weeds. I do this about every other year to keep some control over the thistles and clover. This is a rather boring chore that leaves a lot of time for idle thought.

I wonder. Can "things" have a gender? Our property and house resemble, in some vague way, a woman. Everything is curves, without strait lines or right angled corners. Both the house and property seem to be lacking logic, and exudes emotion. If left to themselves chaos and decay results.

I wonder. Can a society have gender? Can a society shed the strong, the logical, and embrace the weak and emotional? In my 60 years on this earth, that's what I seem to be observing in this country. Strong leadership and logical debate is dying and is being replaced with emotion. Debate is now less of an embrace of differing conclusions based on facts and logic, but on feeling and name calling. Has it always been this way? Have I just noticed this recently or are things changing?

I once stated that the downfall of our society will/has been directly tied to women in the workplace. I received a lot of scorn for that statement, but I still believe it's at least partially true. Women working outside the home has shifted society focus from family to possessions. As a result, partially anyway, we have a high proportion of fatherless households governed by the emotionalism of women without the brutal logic of men. This in turn has created males in our society that are not really men, but almost men, ruled by emotion, not logic, not responsibility or self-reliance.

This result is out there for all to see. Political debates are centered around emotion, things that feel good or feel bad. The gun ownership debate is all about whether somebody "feels" safe, not the reality. Laws are passed, or nor, based on whether it "feels" right or "feels" good, not whether it's the right thing to do. We have to help the less fortunate by giving them things, without regard for whether they are trying to fend for themselves. This just creates more "unfortunate" to support.

Those that base their actions on feelings and the utopia they wish was true are pulling us down a big hole as surely as infinite gravity sucks everything into a black hole. Everything they do to help "people" has just the opposite result. The Robin Hood syndrome we see today is a perversion of the real story. It "feels" good to rob from the rich and give to the poor. The reality was that Robin Hood stole from the oppressive government, and gave it back to the original owners, or maybe kept it all himself. But it "feels" good to punish the hard working, successful and keep the rest dependant. The "feel good" folks want equal results, not equal opportunity. They're pulling us all down the hole into a third world society.