WHOM SHALL WE THANK?

 

By Je suis Spike

 

 

Professional idiot agitators, who are mostly useful idiots, such as animal “rights” activists, gender fluidians, nameyourgrievance fighters… you are FREE to fecklessly protest gravity because somebody paid for your food and clothing… sure, it is merely with “apparent” prosperity, that is indebtedness* not actual prosperity, but, nonetheless… you have many to thank. Also, productive people have many to thank.

There are so many to thank. Among them are those who give up their seats, their food, their time, their lives, those who risked all (while pledging) their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. The last refers to men who understood- and were willing to trust with their all- divine Providence. They may well have been the “subjects” Kipling had in mind as they likely had that “stiff upper lip,” descriptive of the English, (back then, not so much today):

IF – by Rudyard Kipling

I thank the Creator of the Universe for my eyesight every morning I open my eyes and can see. So far, thankfully, that’s been every morning I’ve opened my eyes. I think we should thank those who came before us; those who provided the good things that are rampant in America now: clean water, clean air, abundant food for instance.

 

Oh, and you older folks- not all of us- we need to thank those who come after us, upon whom is our burden of debt laid. Think not that our prosperity is entirely real; it IS debt-based; it is pyramidal and pyrrhic and we may soon learn the endgame of such larceny. You may have worked like a dog your whole life to build up what you have, but, whether you know it or not, cumulatively we have laid up, it is said, 40 trillion dollars in debt that our youngsters are to be saddled with, never to be able to pay off. Next time you think about disparaging some youth because they cannot add without a calculator or find something on a paper map, know this:

 

We did that to them.

 

Be grateful they don’t wonder where their fellow generation [FILL IN A LETTER]ers are to help them assume our debt burden.* (NOTE: They’ve been aborted.) And you better pray they’ve learned more the value of human life than we taught them, because you’re gonna need them to care for you when you become even more burden than the unborn babies who would have been their contemporaries whom we slaughtered or saw slaughtered while doing nothing to stop it.

 

But, really, when it comes to humanity, I like to start with thanking those who choose to do good things which I do not do. I do not work the sewers, pick up the trash or any of the other dirty jobs which Mike Rowe has so well explains need to be done so that we might enjoy our standard of living.

 

And what a standard we have! The rich man of the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus lived not nearly so well as the average poor in America live today. That rich man had not air conditioning or the warmth of a furnace on command. No microwave oven. His food was not as certain to be unspoiled, therefore often in need of very expensive spices just to choke it down.

Think of it, air conditioning, furnaces which evenly warm a domicile, pavement, carpeting and tile floors, not dirt, but an abundance of food and entertainment, medicine. The average lifespan has doubtless increased tremendously since the time of that rich man. Automobiles! Indoor plumbing! Electricity and all the labor-saving devices utilizing electricity and the internal combustion engine!

 

Truly! We stand on the shoulders of giants.

 

I would also thank the mothers and fathers who’ve taken the time and invested precious resources into children, their own and others, to grow children who will take their rightful place into a land which has been made free and kept free by others willing to sacrifice so much.

Yes, parents who followed the growth of their children, checking their homework and trusting them only into the hands of others who would teach them well. There are scoutmasters, troop leaders, teachers, coaches of pee-wee leagues and more. There are good neighbors and shopkeepers and cashiers and shelf-stockers. There are volunteers who escort children safely across streets, who push the wheel chairs of those who need help, who give to organizations helping others with both money and their time. Never forget the good doctors and nurses and others in health care who are not automatons of an industry taken over by liars like Fauci. They deserve a good wage for their efforts as well as our gratitude.

 

Then there are the ones who do the jobs I REALLY don’t want to do, but hope I would if called upon, (so am very thankful I am not called). There are the police officers and firefighters who tend to persons in terrible states of peril and damage from car accidents and gunshots and those who’ve fallen from trees or who won or lost a fight which probably never needed to be fought. The police officers who deal with every stratum of society, the good, the bad, the loud, the nearly invisible and the hideous; those of whom we tire and should be removed from polite society but are not, and not in small measure because weirdo Democrats keep putting back on to the street while RINOS cheer them on so as to have an issue to run on. But the police officer gets to see them all at their worst.

 

And then the Soldiers, Marines, Air Force personnel, Sailors and members of the US Coast Guard and Space Force. Regardless the job they are asked to do, we pray they are able to conduct themselves both in- and displaying- American ideals, the ones we strive to reach and share with others who seek them.

 

It’s hard to thank everybody; there’s no way to know all who benefitted you or me today. I would be especially remiss were I to fail to thank those who run RepublicBroadcasting.org and allow me to write for you. Hopefully, I benefitted someone today, also, but I know that I stand on the shoulders of giants, not having to re-invent the wheel, control fire, build an internal combustion engine, (much less a steam engine), engineer any of the marvels of everyday life. We can walk down the streets paved with concrete, which few of us know how to make, much less place before it hardens into a useful path. We don’t smell the stench of open sewers because people before us figured out how to deal with it and even make something useful from it, Milorganite, (thanks, Milwaukee). We don’t need to pulp a tree to make paper, to press it into pages, now apply ink to make a book which can be used to educate anybody who will take the time to read. NOTE: Slaves weren’t allowed to read because readers are dangerous to those who would tyrannize others. Those who read rarely become slaves. (Pity America with fewer and fewer readers every year. Such free men and women cannot last forever standing on the shoulders of giants if they do not maintain the giants’ work.)

 

We have those who build a better mousetrap and improve our lives in doing so. They should be rewarded. All people who benefit society should be rewarded, even if only by having a society in which we can all live together and pursue our dreams if we do not unrighteously impede the dreams or actions of others, you know, follow the GOLDEN RULE.

 

We have teachers and engineers and factory workers who assemble, and iron workers who turn cherry-red steel into useful tools. We have mechanics and programmers and data-entry clerks who take that data and put it into a useful form with a conscience. We have the educated educators such as mathematicians who provide us the tools to do the math we need to do day-to-day chores and for those who send satellites aloft. We have those who teach grammar such that we might confidently communicate with each other, secure in the knowledge that we receive what others say and they receive us well if we say what we mean and mean what we say. (Obviously not everybody is on board with that; those who count men as women, women as men , invent pronouns just to confound, count taxes as contributions and very young babies as unviable tissue mass. You know, the ones who maintain that everybody else follow their weird claims about their gender then claim they cannot understand why we think gender is important.)

 

We would do well to remember that even captains of industry, many of them good people, who launch those satellites, and those who make real estate deals, and elected officials are not inventing the tools they use. They stand on the shoulders of giants as well, as some of them look down upon us. Even Elon Musk didn’t come up with the understanding of spacetime, though he uses it well. No real estate broker created the land they sell. The wooden boards and I- beams which they sell didn’t need them to come into existence; other people created the machines to make them while still more run those machines.

 

WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS,

 

even if some little minded twerps who measure the world according to their own selfish desires with vanishingly small and inept understanding don’t realize it, even vehemently denying it. (Said one of the most imperfect human beings you could ever meet.)

 

I Thank you very much for reading this,

Je suis Spike

 

Does it not feel like I’ve forgotten somebody? Somebody who is more responsible for the  security of our nation than anybody else?