Is Your World Out of Control?

The AP is a wire service that is as biased and subjective as it can be. It has been at the forefront of a drive to convince America that everything is going to hell, and everything we stand for is wrong. Now they have done a survey and based on a simple question have come to the conclusion that everything is spinning out of control.

So in the survey, in answer to the question "Are you satisfied with the direction of the country?", only 17% say yes. This, to the AP is proof everything is bad. The "World is spinning out of control." The sky is falling. On the other hand, I am surprised you can find 17% who are so complacent as to think we can't improve. If you ask any liberal if they are satisfied with the direction of the country, they will say no. Guess what any conservative will tell you? The fact that people aren't satisfied is not evidence that the world is spinning out of control.

In fact, most people can figure out that natural disasters are NOT something humans control, contrary to the agenda of the uber-ecologists. And they don't consider an inept government as anything more than additional evidence that government sucks. A fact of life. And they don't really believe that what politicians say is true. Nor what they are fed by the media. Or is this just me?

It is such an obvious state of affairs, that the majority of Americans want the country to be something other than what it is now. This is an historical truism, as valid today as it was in 1775, or 1856. But if you are the AP, you can conclude that not believing we are "on the right track" is a bad thing. I guess for them if the majority of people are fat, dumb and happy then that is a good thing for the country?

So what about it- are you fully satisfied with how things are? And if not, do you think a country where the populace is fully satisfied is a good place? Rome was like that for a while, while the bread and circuses lasted. I like a situation that causes people to pay attention, to bitch, to criticize. I think any free society needs a charged civic atmosphere, political discourse and philosophical tension to be healthy, to grow. We are a country founded by and fueled by people who are continually in motion, who are working to do more, to build, fix, grow, change. This is not France or Italy, where bread and wine, soccer and the sun are the most important issues of the day.

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who live to eat, and those who eat to live. Think about it. Write a comment by clicking on the little word "Comment" below.