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December 01, 2006
helloteenageamerica,
there are religions and there are productivity cults and there are corporations of all sorts that you should feel happy to involve yourself with as you see fit. And, we as a nation, you and me, as people who will , by 2012, have the privilege, and some would say social responsibility, of voting, which right is partially intended to imbue our minds with a sense of control over our own destiny, control over the persons who intermediate our own self-rule, the consequences of which will become our reality and filter into the reality of the whole rest of our lives on earth. As such, let's start preparing now so that by '12 our minds and parties are ready to bring into the box a character who will tell it like it is, to our ears prepared to listen like it is!
Young men and women, let's become leaders together – and let america become once again a holistic leader of the nations. We need to get back to the basics of what is freedom, are we free, are other nations free, what can and should we do about it, and not get bogged into the micro level of tactics before we achieve a more sensible middle ground understanding of the fundamentals. We as a nation need to move away from partisanship because the fact is that we have a lot of challenging issues on our plate, and if we negotiate just a few more compromises between our factions on some of the less critical ones and even some of the ones we consider critical, we can get together enough sensible heads to address our remaining shared concerns with more energy. We need a more common national and even global language and consciousness with which to understand the issues.
1)Values and competence are important.
2)Openness honesty and manner are important.
3)Freedom is important.
4)Freedom entails adult responsibility, which in this chaotic and competitive world requires the focus that can often only be maintained through religion, or at least a program of mental and habitual organization that meets the basic spiritual functions of a religion.
5)For the middle road, a national compromise between the annoyingly over-religious and the arrogantly spiritually-under-guided, we have ... Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich philosophy, which is not a get rich quick scheme, but rather an explanation of the essential practicality of the quality spiritual practices of deism (the belief common among America's founders that belief in one god is what's important, towards avoiding excess bickering about details of the one god) and more colorful religions (such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism).
6)Op is an organization pursuing such a purpose, globally.
7)Op's leading avatar is one Dvd, and Op is the confluence of davids-r-me of the neomensches of MJ with the global philosemite Think and Grow Rich student.
8)One who created the martial-art-cum-nouvelle-interpretation called mj also created op.
9)Eye ... M.
10)Baruch Hash-m.
11)Are we as a nation prepared to face greater individual risk and greater responsibility? Let's stop the nanny state. Let's get the regulations out and clean out our absurdly overstuffed bureaucracy before we clog up like some failed socialist state.
12)Let's make a more sensible drug policy. Is marijuana illegal because it's more sinister than alcohol, or is it because the government can get away with making it illegal? Let's .
13)Let's stop pretending people who are financing the religious education of terrorists are our friends just because they have money and oil.
14)Let's stop pretending the UN's balance of dozens of tyrannies versus a handful of free countries represents what is objectively true or moral.
15)Let's stop pretending the whole world is NOT our responsibility! That's right america! We are the leader country of the world, which means that in this increasingly networked and tiny world, other countries rely on us to help them get on the right track, cleaning out their bad guys, getting free, getting their economies stable, getting their health care systems in order, and becoming a gentleman at the global table. Of course we have to do a better job of community building at home to start with.
16)Hello teenage america! Hello teenage world! And so-called "adults" too :p
17) Think and Grow Rich , together, everyone!
18) L'chaim!
Posted by matt at December 1, 2006 03:23 AM
Comments
I note with interest your comments about "Think and Grow Rich" and Napoleon Hill. This great book should definitely be in everybody's library. There are several editions available. My personal favorite is "Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised," edited by a man by the name of Ross Cornwell, who has restored parts of Napoleon Hill's original 1937 manuscript that were cut out of the book in the 1960s. (Most versions of the book today are "abridged" versions. They contain a lot of obsolete terminology and comments that today would be considered racist or sexist.) The editor has also included page after page of endnotes, and he adds some other extremely useful features such as an appendix and a complete index of the book -- something I have never seen in any of the other editions of "Think and Grow Rich" I have looked at. This book goes with me everywhere. Not a day goes by that I do not study up on one of the 13 Steps to Riches. The book is really indispensable, especially for entrepreneur types and young people who want to achieve great things in life.
Posted by: Kirby Barkley at December 1, 2006 05:48 PM