As a first blog let's start with a new word. MELLION. Why not? We are crushed with new words each day and acronyms that only embarrass you if they are uttered in groups that you are not familiar with. Do you have 4G ? My LED is 3D! Can you text with T9? You can only get the program if you have Roku. So we must continue to keep up with the alphabet or get lost in the letters.
We are a country of 308,745,000 people according to the 2010 census. That's 308,745,000 ME's. With 308 million people we are assured of having some very different opinions and ideology.
During 1950 when the golden age was blooming we also had some deferences but with only 152,271,000 people we clearly had fewer ME's than we have today.
Throw in some habitants from other counties and cultures and you have a receipt for ideological chaos. But we are a country that allows for diversity. Always have-always will.
What is disturbing more than the above is the social habits that we have fostered beginning with the boomers. These habits were then transferred to the next generation and then to the next until we have three plus generations of ME's.
As the country continues to divide I feel that the lines of division is more with this group than any other part of society. Sure we have the liberals and we have the conservatives. We have the far extremes of each side. But have you thought about the fact that each person in each group is really out for "what's in it for ME?" And believe me there are MEllions on each side.
Compromise is what we use to do. Can't we just get along is something from a Sunday school book from 1970. I only want what I want and I will not accept anything else. Typical MEllion thoughts!
Understanding the mellion is not hard. He or she was drawned that way since the first baseball or soccer tryout or the first cheerleading squad. Everybody makes the team. This was only but one of the many habits creating the mellions. It continues in High school and in the workplace.
Recognizing the mellion is not hard either. Listen and soon you will see that the maximum number of sentances between a me, myself or I is usually one.
I do not write this without thinking that I myself am a mellion. I am a boomer that didn't start out with much but did well and picked up a few bad habits in the process. But do I intend on staying a mellion? Hell yes! Oops strike that. I do want to temper my own desires so that this country can move forward. Temper is subjective and it is ok to associate temper with tolerance. But one thing that will flow from this and many posts is the danger or allowing tolerance when you know it is wrong. That is when it becomes complacient and that is when some other mellion must temper themself.
When you have a million of something you have a mallion (don't tell Obama). When you have too many mellions you have chaos.
In summary we should accept that many things will never be as they were. We will need to work out some differences. But it would be better for all if we draw a line somewhere and refuse to move that line. My line in the sand is rooted in my faith in GOD. He has never let me down. He has never left me. He has been with me and for me all along. So don't think that I will temper that.
When writing to the editor don't be a Mellion!
Complacency def: : self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers o
Sharing of ideas and interest to avoid the onset of Complacency ( Complacency def: : self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies) in our Country. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil" — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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