July 4, 2018
Liberty: Yours, Mine, and Ours
All day, every day, we are bombarded with endless tweets, texts, articles, posts, and broadcasts. As a nation we suffer from news fatigue. Rightly so, many of the multitude of those sufferers lament that we might return to a time when exhaustion was gratefully shared inside the celebration of a job well done.
The fatigue we feel today is more akin to depression.
But the issues are real. Social media replaces social interaction, and media status supplants social responsibility. We have produced a generation who seeks glory by filming and posting the injustices that abound – too often they film standing alongside that injustice, rather than standing against it.
Across America disagreement and discussion have degenerated into destructive division. Among the greatest of these divisions is the widening gulf between “Haves” and “Have-Nots;” those who own and labor in production, and those who demand the fruits of...(Read Full Article)