Conservative Rule No. 108 CULTURAL LONGEVITY REQUIRES WE GIVE MORE THAN WE TAKE... A common tendency among all addicts is the postponement of responsibility for the pleasure of the moment. All over America, that equation is being played out in crack houses, political offices, board rooms, and living rooms. This self-destructive course finds a comfortable home in a misguided dedication to consumption over production. Everything in nature tells us that mankind functions better when creating, building, fixing, loving, and being useful. An overemphasis on consumption creates a vicious cycle addicting us to whatever it is we are consuming while pulling us from productive activities. In today’s America we have priority addictions to eating, spending, complaining, and living off of other people’s labors – just to name a few. For years America’s political leaders, with our sanction, have relied on short-sighted policies to prop up a system allowing most of us to live beyond our means. Even a termite infested house can look nice with a regular coat of fresh paint. In several short decades we have gone from supplying credit to the world to being in debt to the world. We have sold out our dominant position as the world’s greatest manufacturer one union, regulation, tax, and greedy decision at a time. In that transition we have shifted from a production to a consumption economy. Ayn Rand would suggest our culture’s parasites have incrementally and successfully overtaken our culture’s producers. In a competing global reality, any country emphasizing consumption over production is mortgaging its future. A return to a national conscience that reaches for the dependable outcomes of working over the temporary satisfactions of taking is necessary. Policies, tax codes, regulatory practices, and attitudes must be redirected if we are to remain competitive. Just as chemotherapy for cancer is difficult, a return to a production economy will not be without discomfort. Right now we are taking pain killers and pretending we have been cured. Our nation’s greatest export has long been the beacon of light found in the American success equation. It is in this formula of liberty, opportunity, and responsibility that we find our true mission of contribution. We are here not to consume the world, but to uplift it… “You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar Dr. M. says - Any country not busy producing something for a hungry world is sliding down the food chain…
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:30:02 +0000
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