"What Happens When The Wise Ones Are
Gone?"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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Copyright Sunday, September 8, 2013 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, September 4, 2013
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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must
mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of
life." Lord Byron
After decades of government handouts
and the brainwashing and indoctrination of our children in the public school
system, the younger generation does not possess the same point of reference on
the principles of liberty as do those of us in our 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and
80's. There are only a few tens of thousands who remember the trials of
the Great Depression and many of us were young children or infants during the
Second World War. Still, the nanny state had not yet intruded into our
daily lives, as it has recently.
Every single human being develops
beliefs and opinions based on their accumulated experiences and knowledge and
other influences from a variety of sources, gleaned over the years of their
current lifetime. Sometimes those beliefs and opinions evolve into new
beliefs as they accumulate new information. Sometimes they become firm and
fixed no matter what new information comes their way. As a general rule,
our political beliefs are heavily influenced by what our parents believe and the
actions they took or are now taking, in furtherance of those beliefs.
As the population ages and a
certain generation begins to die off, the general beliefs and opinions of that
generation die off with them and those general beliefs and opinions of that
generation are replaced by the emerging generation. That is why President
Reagan said: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction."
Because of the different experiences
and influences that affect each generation, the beliefs and opinions can be
vastly different as well. Those experiencing hard times, such as during
the Great Depression or the Second World War, would have beliefs and opinions
significantly shaped by those times. However, a generation that was
steeped in prosperity would be shaped in entirely different ways and their
beliefs and opinions would reflect that prosperity. In other words, their
point of reference, which is the basis for most beliefs and opinions, would be
directly influenced by the times in which they lived.
For those of us in our 60’s, 70’s and
80's, our point of reference is much more connected to the founding principles
of our Republic because we were taught those principles and we believe in
them. For the next and future generations the influence of the foundation
of liberty is much more obscure, especially since the federal government got in
the business of setting the curriculum for the public school system, a
curriculum that is directly related to the wish lists of national and
international special interest groups. This new curriculum is laced with
socialism, collectivism, save-the-planet rabid environmentalism and the one
world order. How easy it is to change the belief system in a single
generation than by teaching the children of that generation what some group
“thinks” they should be taught, to reach a desired outcome and to “shape” the
new generation towards those beliefs. Hitler knew this technique
well.
Take for example the fraud that is
man-caused global warming, one of the worst planet-wide con games ever
perpetrated on an entire population for the evil design of total control, no
matter where they lived. Several years ago I was a volunteer,
teaching science lessons to 10-year olds. One of those 10-year olds was my
grandson. On this particular day, my subject was the weather. As a
private pilot I know quite a bit about the weather. When I asked the
students what four things affect the weather, thinking I would get answers like
the Sun, ocean currents, humidity, jet streams and the like, I was taken back
when the first suggestion by one of the kids was man-caused global warming and
the second was man-made pollutants. The term brainwashed instantly came to
mind. The hard fact is, if we let them, a government can breed and
pre-program an entire culture of little followers without the parents ever
knowing what is going on before their very eyes, because they refuse to take
responsibility for what their children are learning. And it’s not just the
government-sponsored curriculum that is the culprit, the teachers and professors
are also brainwashed from our liberal teaching colleges and believe the “stuff”
they teach. With the introduction of Common Core State Standards, the
indoctrination and brainwashing are only increasing.
Therefore, we have a significant worry
about the preservation of freedom in America, if the next generation has been
brainwashed to produce non-thinking, brain-dead collectivists who act like
robots when the government issues an edict, or emits a steady stream of
propaganda, hype, distortions and lies to “direct” the little robots in a
certain way.
Take the IRS for example. We are
forced to pay our taxes through a complex, complicated and
contradictory set of instructions and forms that even the most highly trained
tax attorneys and CPA's can't agree on its provisions. IRS employees are
also no help as they don't understand the tax code any better than the so-called
experts. How then are the American people supposed to comply with such a
cumbersome process of instructions and forms that no one fully
understands? Traps that lead a taxpayer into fines, penalties
and even jail time lurk there in the tax code for the unwary who fall
afoul of the IRS because they can't understand the constantly changing tax code
and will never understand it in their lifetime.
Since 1913 with the passage of the 16th
Amendment that gave us the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax as administered by
the IRS, the tax system has gotten more complex every single year, as the
Congress passes new laws that require the IRS to collect and police.
(i.e. Obama Care) But like the frog in the
slowly warming pot, the people (especially the younger
set) continue to roll over and take it, mostly out of fear of high
fines, penalties, or jail time. The older, wiser people may try to fight,
but they are overwhelmed by the dictatorial power of the IRS. As we
have stated before in previous articles, this is not freedom, it is abject
slavery and we have been conditioned to accept it.
The lion's share of the
people that respond to our articles are well over 50. Some are
in their 80's. They know what has happened to their country because they
have had a longer time to see the trends of where we are headed and where we are
headed does not bode well for freedom and liberty.
In a response to our last week's
article, a reader wrote:
"The current conditions of
our nation surely require direct action from
We the People.
Our system of checks and balances have been corrupted and/or co-opted. Is
an armed rebellion likely to succeed? Is a mass movement on Washington a
better strategy? Is there ANYTHING left for We the People to do to
preserve our way of life? There ARE some of us in study and others in
preparations. When will an anti-government movement begin or has it
already?"
His questions don't have immediate
answers but surely something is brewing in America. The biggest question
of all is, ".... will the American people rise up in opposition
to their government, peacefully, or in revolution?"
The second question is,
".... who will be the soldiers in this opposition, the young, or the
old." Right now it is the older ones with wisdom
that "see" the realities. The young aren't there yet and may never get
there at the current rate of government indoctrination, brainwashing and
propaganda.
So ladies and gentlemen, we are forced
to ask, "what happens to America when the wise ones are
gone?"
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Next week we take on the IRS, full throttle, with
an article entitled, "Probing Eyes on IRS
Lies."
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