It just occurred to me that we will never excel far beyond where we are today. The brightest of our children and the brightest of our adults are hindered or destroyed by limitations. They are limited by socialists thinking that throwing the slower learners in with the brightest will make all children bright. The brightest entrepreneurs are punished with higher taxes and attacks from the left saying their achievements were "luck", "you were born rich", or "you won life's lottery". Hard work, genius, drive, are all penalized in today's society in order for certain groups to advance their agendas on the backs of this nation's brightest.
To think the left wants America to excel and develop new forms of energy while punishing the brightest America has to offer, is a hypocrisy that must be exposed and eliminated before any meaningful progress will be made.
You want Exxon and GM to eliminate middle east oil dependency? You need to quit running around and saying you are going to take Exxon's profits and spend them to buy more votes for your next campaign. You need to stop unions from choking any chance of brilliance that GM would show if not for the yoke around their neck. Our American automakers don't have time for new technologies when they cannot pay today's "negotiated" union obligations.
You want the new generation of mankind going to Mars, to create new technologies, to save the world? The generation that we need to create new paths, new ideas, and unknown discoveries, cannot excel when our most gifted children are treated as a commodity. Yes, we need to help the children who need our help. But you destroy our future by depending upon the next Einstein or Bill Gates or Jonas Salk to wait for his classmates to catch up, or delay or destroy his own path to their highest levels, because he was denied college based upon an entrance quota because of what some elitist thinks is "fair" or "equal". Let's have adults help the children who need help, but whoever thought we should treat every child as the lowest common denominator was an idiot. You cannot treat children as a commodity. It's being done today with the focus on creating "minimum levels of performance". Excellence cannot exist when it is discouraged. Now new idiots are pushing the idea that a longer school year, or even year round schooling will reverse the direction their failed experiment is going. I'll tell you where it's going: follow the money.
When you set the limit of brilliance anyone can achieve, whether good intentioned or not, that limit suddenly doesn't motivate anyone or inspire anyone to work hard to reach that limit. Most people recognize, records or today's accepted levels of achievement are to broken and surpassed, and sometimes that is the greatest motivation of all. It cannot be measured, and it sure the hell can't be managed as a commodity. |
