So there is a documentary called “The Obama Deception”~ I haven’t actually watched the whole thing but apparently it is revealing the truth about how Obama is fulfilling “The New World Order” and how he’s really exactly the same as George W. Bush was and how they all just want to own us and other such ideas.
This is fine, I am totally cool with people criticizing our government and questioning authority.. That is absolutely necessary and respected. But what I’m boggled about is a comment that some other reader left at the end, ya know on You Tube where you can leave comments about stuff if you give them your information and sign your life away to Google? (haha j/k)…
This person wrote, “I want the freedom to CHOOSE if I volunteer. He is FORCING our kids into community service. He’s destroying the nation and taking away our freedom. If you’re too stupid to see that, it doesn’t matter because you’ll experience it soon enough.
DUMBASSES”
This got me thinking about the phrase “freedom to choose”—-
I really want to understand this “freedom to choose” idea. It seems to me, that people, specifically American people, have discovered a way to turn a relatively positive phrase, “freedom to choose”, into a justification for living completely self-centered, destructive, almost evil, lives. I mean, how does a person write the words “He is FORCING our kids into community service” and really feel good about themselves afterwards?
Granted, I respect that some people aren’t as gung ho as I am about serving people who are less fortunate or the planet that we live on. But I don’t know who can honestly find something wrong with doing it.
It may be a sacrifice and it may not be fun, but I think that is where our “American culture” has gone wrong. We have been brought up on expecting everything to be fun or exciting or pleasurable… and if it’s not we disregard or even destroy it (i.e spraying DDT all over our farms and gardens…. oooops)
Also, this “freedom to choose” thing bugs me when I think about the fact that what we’re really saying is that you have the freedom to choose, as long as you choose what we say is right. Such as our entire war dedicated to bringing democracy to Iraq. So for some reason Iraqi people can’t successfully carry on a democracy unless they abandon their Muslim religion… because why exactly?? Has it been determined in some economic equation that Muslims simply can’t be democratic, only Christianity-based religions can uphold democracy… so you have the freedom to choose, as long as you choose to stop doing things that we don’t like or understand.
So whoever this person that wrote the comment on You Tube is, they think that they have the “freedom to choose” because when they drive down the street they have more fast food options than they can keep track of… but honestly, choosing between trans fat infested chicken from one place or trans fat infested beef from another is not really a “choice”.
So they pride themselves on having the freedom to choose… but mostly the freedom to not have to make any real decisions at all.
—-> Or am I just way too liberal and missing the part of their comment that provided a realistic/respectable point of view?? Please enlighten me if you can shine some like on this…
