Paradise Lost

I find myself in a state of lachrymosity over the current path this Great Nation is taking. The American People have grown fat and lazy. We as a nation expect the Government to hand us everything, Accountability is gone, responsibility for ones actions is gone, it sickens me. This mind frame is evident across the board insofar as American domestic affairs are concerned. You see it during Natural disasters, people on top of their houses with signs saying "Help Me" when you have already been told to evacuate. You see it in todays financial hardships, A Stimulus Package that asks me and you to help pay some ones mortgage because they cannot live within their means. Massive expansion of Government intervention in everyday affairs is not the answer. The answer is a return to the core values that made this country so great to begin with. The belief that hard work in a free economy will be rewarded. The belief that we ARE the shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.

Societus Lupus Continuous

What is the measure of a man? Is it friends, money, knowledge? Lets hope for my sake it's not money. I have friends in spades, and as to knowledge, I'm pretty much over-educated, a wealth of insignificant and useless knowledge. Can you measure a man by the impact he has on the world? Or should you measure him by the impact he has on his world? Neither I think. Actually I think it's none of the above. I believe the measure of a man is how much he has loved in his life. To be more specific, I think it is how much that love is returned. Maybe that's why it feels so empty and lonely sometimes. Can any of us not truly count on one hand how many people (immediate family excluded) have actually returned the love you gave them? A friend of mine Sean Sala once said (and I hope he doesn't mind me stealing... but) "Our hearts are not soft at all. But made of iron. We need hearts of flesh. But even fleshly hearts will harden if blood does not flow though it." Our Society is so caught up on it's self it refuses to see the good people have to offer, choosing the latest trend to be it's moral compass rather. Books, television, music and movies, all have a fine time portraying good people, honor, love, and yet when the credits roll, the masses go back to check their e-mails for signs that their shifty inner-circle maneuvering has somehow succeeded in bettering their life, never mind at the expense of others, just so long as this temporary alliance with this genuine person gets me to where I need to be. Is this where we are as a people? Where the choosing of a mate is based on physique and money, rather than devotion and honor? How can the greatest society in the history of the world be so materialistic? How can we continue on and hope to survive? What is the measure of a man this day in age? The amount of wool you can shave off him, people are sheep... following where ever the herd goes, for the sole fact that that's what everyone else is doing. Friends... Be wolves. Have the pack mentality, care for those around you as they do, tackle problems as a group. Stand apart from the herd. Robert Frost once wrote "...and i took the road less traveled, and that made all the difference." Why do we fight? to give you the choice... Am I a Sheep? or am I a Wolf? Only you can know, inside your heart of hearts, decide... one way or another, and with that decision, make a difference in your world, love in your world.

Societus Lupus

The Wolf gets a bad rap in my opinion, Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves. Savagery, blood-lust, disregard for the flickering flame of life, willing to snuff that flame out the instant it furthers our own selfish goals. Long forgotten by the masses are the truly magnanimous traits of the Wolf. Honor, loyalty, order, restraint. The Wolf respects the packs hierarchy, the wolf never betrays his own kind, the wolf never takes what's more that needed to survive. Noble characteristics to be admired and emulated. No, instead we take this regal creature and demonize it, make it's lonely howl at thing to send chills down ones spine, instill in it the very things we are most afraid of. When in reality we are more likely to ravage ourselves than to become victim to anything else. There is much of the wolf to be desired in modern society. But the masses are much more content to be Sheep...
Being Sheep is easier, there is no free thought required. There is just do what everyone else is doing. Move with the herd wherever the Trend Shepherd tells you to go. Trend Shepherd CNN tells you what to think, Trend Shepherd MTV tell you what to wear, life is good! What's next guys?! I know! Let's worry about the "Crisis in Darfur" Madonna and George Clooney say it's bad there!. Open your eyes...
Take care of your own as the wolf does. The Sheep gets taken care of. A people in a country half way around the world are killing each other and inflicting grievous acts upon themselves. Horrible horrible things agreed, yet they've been doing these things since time immemorial, they will not stop now. Meanwhile YOUR countrymen are being wounded or killed to the tune of three a DAY and you ignore them, allow them to be relegated to a numerical footnote at the end of the evening news. Must you support what their doing? No. Again, I am a fan of free thought. What it is you MUST do, is support THEM. Whether you like it or not, the Airman, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines are deployed FOR YOU, they spend months and years away from their loved ones, in harms way to protect your RIGHT to choose to Sheep or Wolves. Do not disgrace this selfless act, sometimes to the point to that greatest of sacrifices by ignoring them, debasing them as the uneducated dregs of society following mindlessly the direction the government points. Lest you forget this Great Country was founded by "We The People..." 7 years ago "We The People" Sent them over there. Hope you haven't forgotten why yet. Watch this if you have...