Be careful what you say: “Little pigs have big ears”. Mothers still say this to fathers, other mothers and friends as they watch their children at play. Children are like sponges and will and do soak up all that they hear, right from early childhood, until they reach young adulthood and beyond.
This advice is well founded and should be followed and practiced as part of our responsibility as their parents. We teach far more by example than we ever could by instruction – yet another truism or wisdom. It is how we live our lives as decent human beings that really matters, that really counts for anything of real value, and in turn teaching our young to conduct themselves as responsible, caring, compassionate and law abiding citizens.
To live their lives with respect for themselves and their fellow man is of far more value to our children, and therefore the rest of humanity, than it is to bog them down with endless regulations and an ever-increasing mire of rules and behavioural guidelines set down by faceless bureaucrats driven by a politically correct ideology.
This political correctness is at best, like the modern version of multiculturalism, an ill-conceived, badly planned and fraudulently implemented social experiment, that will probably have tragic consequences.
The increasing over-regulation of our society is an affront to our collective intelligence, as it assumes that we are not intellectually or emotionally equipped to regulate ourselves, and therefore to teach our own children the difference between right and wrong. The powers-that-be in their infinite wisdom have decreed that we, the rank and file, the Jack and Betty, the mainstream, the backbone, the working class, the heart and soul of this our beloved country, cannot and should not be entrusted with that responsibility.
Having said that, that Right, the right to morally and ethically educate ourselves, we, of course, need guidelines and we of European/British lineage have accepted the teachings of the Christianic persuasion that you do not steal, you do not kill, you do not covet your neighbours’ wife or cattle, you treat others as you would have them treat you and that you will go peacefully into the world.
You have the right to live your life in this fashion as an example of that which is the good in man and to shun all that will rise in us as evil, or in other words, do your best to be a decent human being. Part of the purpose of the creational process is, I believe, to have us struggle with this proposition that good must and will triumph over evil given the chance to do so. I believe it is inherent in all but a few – to do good when and where they can and when they encounter those that will oppose this universal law, they will do their best to overcome and punish those few who defy that law.
You cannot rely just on regulations to have a better society; you will never create a better world to live in by rules and regulations alone – life is to be “lived” in all of its manifestations. I truly believe that, if left to our own devices, most of us will be decent human beings given half a chance. To make decisions for all based on the errors of a few is not only wrong, it is against the natural order of all things.
There has been and there will always be those that will not obey the fundamental rules or guidelines that we all generally accept as the right thing to do, but to punish the rest of us for those few is a futile exercise leading to what we have now – which is a chronic state of over-reaction and over-regulation.
We are becoming bogged down by endless trivialities, there are laws on every part and every facet of our lives – one day we will be “living” so little of our lives that we are in danger of losing all communion with the creator and the creational process; of no longer enjoying any relationship spiritually with our natural realm, of allowing ourselves to became, as foretold in that wonderful literary work “1984” by Orwell.
I think this book is frighteningly prophetic for the times we live in – when “Big Brother” rules the world with a “One World Order” brought about not by the beauty of the human soul and intellect working in wonderful harmony together to achieve a better world, but by the heavy hand of one seat of an all-wise and all-knowing power.
We are in danger of becoming a populace ruled over and enslaved by those that would tell us that they, and only they, know what is best for us and that to disobey is punishable with the loss of our freedom, which by that time we will have precious little left of anyway.
I ask you all to remember that when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Your friend,
Angry.