Righties have been talking a lot about personal responsibility. May have the temerity to offer three possible responses to any given problem this fraught, fallen world poses to hapless Homo (sic) sapiens living here:
1. Ain't it awful? The sweep of history is fixed; the problems too great; the forces too powerful; the doom inevitable. Pass the lemon meringue pie and the Chardonnay...
2. Ain't they awful? The spongers, parasites, criminals, out to steal our money, corrupt our daughters and sell the country to heathens. Back in a while, dear; I'm off to Home Depot to buy some more hollow-point 'Maim-N-Kill' ammunition and a few more alligators for the moat...
3. What can I do to help?
Seems to me that only one of these involves an adult notion of responsibility. Which reinforces my notion that a person calling for another person to exert more personal responsibility is putting the cart before the horse, confusing motes with beams in evaluating intraocular foreign bodies, and, in general, being a poopyhead...
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