Dear Editor,
I am concerned about 2025. There is too much emotion and not enough knowledge. It is strange to include the latter in this age of Wikipedia, Bing, and Google. But there is a difference between having unlimited information (data) and knowing what it means and how to use that knowledge to our benefit.
It amazes me that we have come so far in medical knowledge, saving lives every day that would be considered miracles in ancient times.
We know so much about everyone and trade with them, and we have the technology to support everyone in the world with the knowledge of how to develop their food sources and necessities, but we can’t find a way or the will to do it. We keep running into the walls of jealousy and desire for money and power. (Knowledge is power if you didn’t know it.) We mainly just can’t agree on how to get to the utopia we would like to have.
We are lucky in this country of ours. Our founding fathers looked at the history of countries and gave us a Constitution and Bill of Rights based on their examination of history. A republic is based on trusting God and assuming that we will follow the golden rule by caring for and helping each other. The federal government was to defend our country (which requires securing our borders) and ensure smooth commerce between the states. It took a miracle to forge this document. But they expected us to educate and inform ourselves and our children so we could adequately manage our lives and our governments. Why do we have problems today?
They never anticipated that our media, once a trustworthy news source, would become propagandists instead of presenting the truth about our government's actions. They didn't foresee the government controlling what our children learn (or don’t learn). They couldn't imagine congressmen securing careers along with generous pensions and benefits. They were unaware of the elite government’s interference in our lives, dictating everything from the type of stove and cars we could use to the healthcare options available to us, including how much of our hard-earned money we were allowed to keep.
We no longer work together as we did in WWII in a concerted effort to stop our enemies from taking over. We no longer have a Peace Corps to help other countries learn how to help themselves, which had the benefit of teaching our children how bad it is in other countries versus how good we have it here. We no longer require cursive writing, which is a better learning tool than typing into computers, or the multiplication tables or poems, which teach the mind to learn. Or learn what I have put in this letter that made us great.
Change is the one constant in our lives. Join me in praying that the 2025 changes will return us to what the founding fathers gave their lives and fortunes for: our freedom!
L. O. Cox, Jr., Greshamville