The Bunker Mentality

My friend and I are the co-presidents of the Ostrich Club. The only requirement for membership is to keep one's head firmly planted in the sand at the slightest hint of trouble. It can work beautifully. I am not referring to personal issues like at home, but business ones, for example, where you know nothing you can do will affect the outcome. This comes from years of experience.

Let's suggest we are sitting in the board room, say, and you have been working this job for over 30 years. Some young buck or buckette comes in and wants to set the world on fire with new ideas. So, you:

~ a) tell them they are utterly inexperienced and are spinning their wheels
~ b) they need to work smart, rather than the shotgun approach
~ c) you care about them, and don't want to see them waste time (like they would listen)

~d) firmly plant your head in the sand and tell them that it is the greatest idea you have ever heard in your life, and anything you can do to help would be your pleasure !!!!

So that when they become your boss one day, they will hopefully look back in gratitude for your support. Also, never noting that all they did was run around like a headless chicken and got nowhere, since this would take humility and we know that has no basis in business (ask Lehman's CEO).

Being an ostrich takes skill. And I have sand in my shirt as proof. 32 years and I finally grew a brain.

In a bigger sense, I see my country going to hell in a hand basket. The new generation and a goodly portion of the current one have no consideration of, or give credibility to, any of the qualities that brought us here. This is the mantra:

~ the military sucks, always does evil, like our gov't, and only losers who believe in patriotism go into it.

~ God is BS (ask Bill Maher. He may be right. If God created him, He may not exist ...)

~ have sex like it was buying candy and is as easily available (but not returnable for quality...)

~ abort the result, if you are dumb enough to get into this position (pardon the pun)

~ that Wall St is a bunch of greedy SOBs (partially true), who, by the way, through investment in the market and themselves, employ millions of people. Gosh, I hate them, keeping the economy afloat.

~ marriage is a piece of paper instead of a commitment. Just tear it up, if you don't like it.

~ If you make over $250.0 per year you are considered rich. Anyone who makes $250.0 a year knows that belief is total BS. If we are so rich, where is all my freaking money? I go to Destin for vacation and drive a Ford Focus. $250.0 is the new middle class. Needless to say, my savings went down the toilet recently.

~ back to the Wall St. pinheads: they work 15 hours a day or more. They just aren't considered working Americans. I guess you have to put nails in wood to be considered an authentic American.

~ the gov't will mandate to whom I give charity. These idiots can't run a DMV. Who are they to tell me where I can give charity? I give $1,000.00 a year to Parkland Hospital because I have to? Who patronizes the place?: Illegal immigrants. My kid just had surgery there and I promise it was not free for me. Maricons!!!

~ with liberals running all three branches of the G (soon), what is to stop them from taking my social security and doling it out to those, in their minds, more deserving? And what of this threat that it will run out of money. I never hear that welfare is going to run out of money, do you?

Where do I turn now? I will not watch TV, I will not listen to talk radio, I will not read the paper. The new trend of America, no judgement and a moral free for all, is the same as the immature, idiot new business person: no thought or experience required. And I am powerless to do anything.

And I can't tell them to go for it because my future will be severely impacted on a spiritual level. Business is one thing, but morality and ethics are a whole other ball game, and more important than anything else. I am running out of sand to put my head in.

Let an atheist concede that God exists, when we meet up, what is He going to ask? I am guessing did we truly love or did we do otherwise? Were the things we embraced, our gods, meaningful and transcendent? Are the values that made our country great have anything in common with His edicts? Yes: fairness, compassion, self reliance, reward for work, the chance to succeed (look at Obama...), God centered, charitable and no one gets left out except by choice. Just like France, right? No.

So I am going to crawl into a bunker and hunker down. I am truly afraid. It seems our current society has no concept of history and an inordinant love for socialism. What can I do? If I find a better place, I am going there. If it is an island in the Marianas, fine. Then I'll be one of the last taken prisoner in the next war. There is a war on now and I am fighting it. I just can't win it. It ain't that complicated, for everyone to live with self respect and the respect of others. So why keep monkeying with it? Utopia doesn't happen, so quit it.

Oh, there is one Utopia: Jesus. The word of God made flesh, and the only answer to everything. My bunker door is open only to Him and those that love Him more than anything else. Think about it: if we all lived by loving our neighbors as ourselves in the truest sense, we'd have the Utopia we seek.

And I wouldn't be writing this entry.

But even He knew it was a goal that could be gotten only in heaven. The real America reflects Him more than anywhere else on this planet, past or present. Why change it? Polar bears? And how could you possibly hate it so much to think this way?

God bless you.
KJPrice