I know it's been a long-time brewing, but I can't recall the exact point at which the American Way transformed into simply not giving a shit. In hard times, it becomes more necessary to tighten the belt and worry about #1, but it can't just end at that. It's becoming the new religion to simply not have passion, helped along all the more by the twin patron saints of stupidity and the-easy-way-out.
The price of freedom is vigilance, and not just in the arena of public safety. Vigilance to financial responsibility, vigilance to civil liberty, vigilance to citizenship and justice. Being free means having to make sacrifices and being responsible for the consequences of your actions; not the pubescent notion that to be free means not having to listen to anybody else and living on your own terms no matter what anyone else thinks.
I look ahead 20 years to the America that this behavior will create and I am not pleased. Education in America needs a PR makeover, it needs to be cool to be educated. It needs to be cool to be smart, to care. If we are to endure, it must be cool to work hard.
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