Outlive

Oh my. I remember the salad days of yesteryear.  All the confidence/arrogance, the carefree/irresponsible attitude.  Yes it's both good and bad.  It's just as childish/childlike qualities attributed to pre high school kids.

We may not have thought we were immortal, but many of us certainly disregarded aging.  Sure we had parents and teachers.  Many of us thought they were 'old'.  And yet most of us respected them.  Where else did we seek examples and wisdom?  That's not to say OTOH that some of us thought we had all the answers.  Very yin/yang.

Kids, though proclaiming cultural independence, were oddly conformist.  Few seemed to actually express individuality. We had role models and maybe some were surface while others were textured.

Some accepted either traditional America without thought as others pursued counter/encroaching collectivist revolution without thought. That has been and always will be the problem.  Thoughtless acceptance leaves a vacuum, which can be displaced and filled with equal vacuousness.  Patriotism based solely in emotion, with cult of personality as a mainstay is just as flawed as the trend to emotionally embrace collectivism.  In other words, think.

I was taught to think for myself from an early age.  This, in spite of all the cultural trends and the tendency to gloss over kids, gave me a foundation upon which to build.  Mind you I was still a kid and hardly ready to accept an adult life.  I was merely given a chance to learn.

I was not alone, for many others were raised this way.  And respect was given.  Unless, that respect was betrayed say by adults who were irresponsible and tried to Pied Piper us into confusion/exploitation.  Or were abusive. 

We were raised steeped in the history of Freedom.  We formed an understanding of the Founders and everything they stood for.  We avoided the glossed over sainted view and looked for the details.  To this day I dig and seek the truth for weal or woe.  And that truth is the difference between headline scanners and issue makers.

One f the red diaper know-it-alls had bragged they aka collectivists, will outlive us, those who believe and live Liberty.  No. 

Ideas are immortal.  Freedom and all the Republic stands for, is meant to not just survive, but to proliferate.

The collectivists claim their 'ideas' are the future.  They are nothing but hollow promises which time and again have proven to be oppressive and fatal.  Truth will out.

There have been evil leaders.  They fall, though tinpot rabble rousers try to resuscitate the venom of collectivism. 

So I and all of us die/cross over/transition.

We will pass on truth.  Freedom and the rights of the individual will live beyond us.  Oppression and tyranny crumble to dust.

Not only do we outlive the enemy, we transcend.