Why another blog? The Internet is full of blogs!
Because ours is different.
We are a group of American college-age citizens who have become concerned about the current state of affairs. More specifically, we are worried about where we are and where we are going as a nation. We think it is high time for someone to stand up and point out that the Emperor, as it were, has no clothes.
We are not partisan activists, nor are we religious bigots. We are open-minded, intelligent people who have good reason to believe that we're not on the right track as a people. The witness of history attests to this fact.
As a generation, we have become decadent. Obsessed with entertainment, we live for nothing more (or less) than instant gratification. We have become addicted to the internet to the point that our brains are literally rewiring themselves. Reading is becoming obsolete, along with intelligent discourse. Faith, hope, and love, the old-fashioned pillars of a working society, have become regarded as the obsolete totems of a dead world.
Instead of learning for ourselves, we allow media and academy pundits to tell us what, how, and when to think. Instead of thinking through social issues for ourselves, we allow the mass media to program our thought. Instead of learning essential knowledge and wisdom from the ages, we rely upon Google and Bing to find information for us, as needed. Instead of possessing self-value and self-confidence through basic competency, we have subcontracted every task imaginable. None of us knows how to sustain ourselves -- very, very few know the meaning of hunting, planting, or manual labor.
A generation has arisen, in short, that has learned to play while the "grown-ups" take care of the vital business of the day. Government, defense, medicine, etc. The problem, of course, is that those grown-ups will start disappearing in the next decade or so, leaving empty shoes to be filled.
And no competent adults to fill them.
And so we believe it is necessary to raise awareness of the situation and stir up the fires of self reliance (to borrow from a good fellow named Emerson, look him up); we want to stir up ourselves and our peers to stop following the dictates of the political elite and the mass and social media outlets. To resist the dehumanizing effects of technology addiction. To think for ourselves and work for ourselves and learn the meaning of those precious (but ever disappearing) words like dignity, honor, and virtue. Because without them, we don't have a society; we have chaos as a great society crumbles into dust.
And we refuse to let that happen.