This just in: It occurs to me that we, as a society, make a lot of choices without even being aware of it. Or, and even worse, we are aware of it but refuse to consider alternatives to what we want to believe to be true.
Here are some choices that are currently available to everyone living in the United States:
- Do you choose to fight in wars in the Middle East for a variety of reasons or do you choose to address those issues through other means; possibly economically or diplomatically?
- Do you choose Popeye’s Chicken or KFC?
- Do you choose fear or love?
- Do you choose the vastness of our current military or do you choose healthcare and post-high school education for all?
- Do you choose Taco Bell or a normal Mexican restaurant?
- Do you choose Fox News or do you choose a variety of news sources specifically known to be unbiased?
- Do you choose white supremacy or do you embrace diversity?
- Do you choose being right or being happy?
- Do you choose what you want to be true or do you choose what is actually true?
- Do you choose oil or electricity?
- Do you choose big money in politics or not?
- Do you choose horse de-worming medicine or a vaccine?
- Do you choose to stretch your 8-iron or a softly hit 7-iron?
- Do you choose a healthy planet or a dying one?
- Do you choose salty chocolate and caramel candy or do you choose communism?
- Do you choose today’s Republican Party or do you choose governance and Democracy?
- Do you choose a Labradoodle or a plain Labrador?
- Do you choose sound economic theory or do you choose Trickle-Down economics?
- Do you choose a cool bedroom at night or a warm one?
- Dog or Cat?
- Do you choose to overthrow the election results or to accept them?
- Do you choose unfettered gun ownership or regulated gun ownership?
- Chicken or beef?
- Do you choose, “America, love it or leave it” or do you choose to work to make American better?
- Bewitched early Daren or latter?
- Do you choose to close the southern border or to improve/streamline our immigration system?
Just something to think about.
Time to save the world.
Up, up and away…
Jim
