Month: August 2020

Rosy Glow – A Little Comparison

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I cannot take credit for this Rosy Glow, credit goes to Cousin Bob LaTorre and Alyssa Ahlgren who I learned about through a post on Facebook. Also a shout out goes to Stephen Rooney who re-posted Alyssa’s work.

This Rosy Glow is to show us how some things never change. I have re-posted a Rosy Glow by Cousin Bob which is about 35 years old. Alyssa’s is recent but I am sure you will all see the comparisons. The fact that some young people see today what Cousin Bob did 35 years ago gives me and I am positive it would give Cousin Bob that feeling that he would call that …..Rosy Glow!

Enjoy!

Rosy Glow

by

Bob LaTorre & Alyssa Ahlgreen

 

Link to Cousin Bob’s Ros Glow which I re-posted 5 years ago

Rosy Glow – The Freest Nation

Allyssa’s Take:

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspective…

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my news-feed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn’t see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.” #pleaseshare

 

Rosy Glow- The Problem with Adjectives

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By

Andrew DeMarco

Before reading this Rosy Glow, please take a moment to view this short video with Morgan Freeman and Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes in 2005. I promise the video is just about a minute long and is interesting.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=morgan+freeman+60+minute+interview&docid=607994793011839398&mid=0CA878E6FABE8C7A8C630CA878E6FABE8C7A8C63&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

It was this video that got me thinking that the problems we are having today might be able to be summed up in one word, adjectives.

That is right I said adjectives. Words that modify nouns by amplifying them or by creating distinctions. Let me give you some examples that will make this a little clearer.

The adjectives black, blue, police and all are the first examples. None of these adjectives should be used with lives in combination with matters. Simply put, life matters. Take away the modifiers that give lives a distinction and we have what truly matters, life, which is something I am sure we can all agree upon  and that ends that debate.

The next examples of adjectives that in my opinion are unnecessary are Latino, Native, Italian, Irish, Korean or any other nationality used before American. Using these adjectives creates distinctions in something which we all have in common whether by right of birth or naturalization and that is being American. It does not matter where you come from because we are all Americans and part of that great melting pot. ‘E pluribus Unum.’

One example which I really do not quite understand is the adjective hate when used in front of crime. What is a hate crime?  If I am bashing you over the head with a bat, stabbing you, assaulting you or killing you, I am quite sure it is not out of love. Murder is murder and assault is assault and they are crimes period. Using the adjective hate only exacerbates the crime and leads to further resentments and divisions.

Then there is the adjective systemic which is usually used with racism. In my opinion systemic is not necessary at all when discussing racism. No one is born a racist it usually comes from one’s environment or is subtlety ingrained into one’s nature. In a sense, all racism is systemic so there is no need for it other than to create the appearance that racism is worse than it really is and further fosters division. It seems that the very people and organizations that use these adjectives are the reason for the systematic indoctrination of racism. For instance, how many government forms have you filled out that did not ask for one’s ethnic background, I would say very few. Then there are all those groups which further fuel the flames of racism by using the adjectives black, white and any ethnic adjective. They are the ones truly responsible for racism by creating a system to instill it in others.

Finally, there is the one adjective that should be used and used frequently and that is human when used with race or being as it is the only adjective that matters. When we all take Mr. Freeman’s advice and stop calling one another black, white, Italian, Native, Korean, etc. and start using human being or human race then maybe we can do away with all the other adjectives. I am sure with less hate, color and ethnic distinctions, it will give us all that feeling that Cousin Bob would call that…..Rosy Glow!