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Reading American Thinker, again. Read this article entitled 3 Scenarios for the Obama Years: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. ( http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/3_scenarios_for_the_obama_year.html ). I also have a third scenario, and it is my scariest one: he will do the latter, but make it appear like the former. That is, he will be take the US on a hard left course, but in such a way so as to not scare the Christopher Buckleys and soccer moms of the world too much, too soon.
I'm not sure what I hope for in his presidency, well, not true, I hope and pray he rules wisely and for the betterment of his neighbor - the citizens of this country. But I think he's much more likely to go along the lines of the third scenario in this article, unfortunately. As homeschoolers we should be paying attention and doing what we can to stop it or we won't be homeschooling - note this proposal of President-Elect Obama
Praying still for a wise and just presidency. |
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Just got pointed toward this article |
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Just read the most fascinating article over at American Thinker (www.americanthinker.com) about where we, as a country, seem to be heading. The article is Orwell's Children (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/orwells_children.html) and it's fascinating to consider what he's pointing out. Since the hyperlink doesn't seem to work (might be tied to my browser so I'm going to try and fix that today), I'll link some of the text for you to ponder. We are drifting into the sort of horrific future he described. Too many of us for comfort or solace have become just like the denizens of Jonestown: Orwell's children -- a new generation of creature enraged into constant militancy against eternal enemies, oblivious to the notion of a Blessed Creator, melded into the consciousness of the party hive, divorced from history, hypnotized by images, inoculated against reason, stripped of family, and existing only to serve the cause.
Orwell did not write his book in a vacuum. 1984 describes the Soviet Union (the book describes Stalinist Russia so well so that subjects of that evil empire wondered when Orwell had lived there, though he had just described what he saw from the outside.) 1984 also describes Nazism and every other odious totalitarianism, which its secret police and propaganda machine and atomized subjects. But Orwell was very much also writing about the democratic western nations. His book was a warning of what could happen here. Oceania, the only totalitarian superstate actually descried in 1984, was largely America and the British Empire.
There were specific elements necessary for nations with a heritage of freedom to slide into the most absolute and abject slavery. These elements existed in Nazi Germany, they existed in Soviet Russia, and they exist in our free democracies today. What are the characteristics of the Orwellian state?
Start with God. He must go. The great Russian novelists knew this: "Without God, everything is permitted." In Oceania, God simply does not exist. The Nazis bragged that they would raise a generation "...without ever having heard of the Sermon on the Mount or the Golden Rule, to say nothing of the Ten Commandments." The Soviet persecuted anyone who followed the God of Jews and Christians. God is hounded in our world today. A generation of Orwell's Children are growing up without thinking about God at all or thinking that God is a silly idea cherished by sillier old fogies.
...Orwell even told us, by name, the professionals who would lead us into the nightmare of 1984: "sociologists," "teachers," "bureaucrats," "journalists," "professional politicians," "scientists," "trade union organizers," "publicity experts," and "technicians." (The term "community organizer" was unknown to him.) Those who enslave were those who taught students, who created the news, who sat in the halls of government power, and who defined official "truth" (at least truth de jour.) Orwell's Children live among us now, not in tiny numbers in weird Marxist cults like Jim Jones' People Temple, but as leaders of Congress, as the establishment of academia, as the producers of news and entertainment, as the administrators of public schools, as the "experts" in a thousand myriad and odd fields of putative "expertise." They infatuate our bored children with the only reality and the only diversion that many can find. They wait for the rest of us to grow older and to die. Praise be to God that I can still say that! I am daily thankful that my children know their need for a savior and are washed clean in the waters of their baptisms and will grow up to know their Lord! I only wish there were more children out there growing up this way. There's some serious work to be done to create thinkers who know their God! |
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Read this article this morning over on American Thinker |