Thought dump

                 I look to the future quite often. Where I’m headed, how I expect things to be, what my children’s lives will be like. I’m pretty sure that we all look to the future, its human nature. We need to know what’s ahead. What we need to overcome, what we need to change, what we need to do the same. The unknown has always been what has led to the downfall of civilizations or great leaders.

                When I look to the future for my kids, I see too many roadblocks, that I can’t really see a clear path forward. We are in the middle of the biggest health and safety risk in a century, but to hear many around me speak about it, we have no health risk we merely have a government exceeding its limits. It’s wrong for the government to suggest that we take actions to save the lives of those around us. Instead, the apparent desired action is to just let the deadly disease take its course. The Pro-lifers are saying, “hey, some people need to die so that we can continue to pretend that there is no disease.”

                I struggle with what to tell my kids. Am I supposed to say that liberals support science and fact, and if you listen to them you will be ridiculed by the right because they believe in law, and even though the law is on the side of fact these people are correct? How are you supposed to teach anything to children with this blatant disregard of reality?

                To be clear I don’t think that the big problem of today is right vs. left or conservative vs. liberal. No, the problem is fact vs. fiction and reality vs. dreamworld.

                I don’t know what I should tell my children because I believe in fact and science. I have to be careful about that because I know that they are going to encounter people who believe in neither, and they will claim that they are being persecuted because of their detachment of reality. I can certainly continue to present the facts that I come across, but I have to be careful because I can’t let them repeat everything since there is a sizeable amount of people who disagree with fact in this country.

                That is the sad fact about the USA right now. Many people still respect science and fact, but close to half of Americans don’t anymore. Knowledge has become political. No longer do we fight over how best to use knowledge, we now fight over whether we agree with knowledge. The educated are now held at the same level as the charismatics. If you can hold an audience, it doesn’t matter that you can’t answer the question 2+2 equals? That is now what defines the government.

                Too many people have said that they want a dictator who isn’t capable of thought, over someone who has desire to lead and help people. And that desire to help people is considered a problem.

                What am I supposed to tell my children? “Be an asshole”? “Think that you are better than everyone else cause your skin says so”? or maybe “Life sucks, we owe it to everyone (especially ourselves) to pick each other up, to say that everyone deserves a chance.” Maybe “Everyone’s life is hard, some harder than others, we need to make sure that we use our station to further the rights of those around us”?