Living in a Police State- The Airport Experience

[ChisolmTrailDem]

34. You know, what really gets to me is how we

is we have these logically destructive things that happen in our culture and we embrace them and make them a part of our lives and our policies and our temperament. Our nation is gripped by one fear or another and we have manifested these fears as an accepted part of our lives; instead of rejecting the negatives we are embracing them and making them into our identity.

I can think of three examples: 9/11 leads to security/police state. Mass killings incite fear among gun owners that their guns will be seized and anti-gun people fear the guns, gun owners, and the gun owners' efforts to secure even more weapons due to their fear of their guns being siezed. And, third, technology has contributed to a withdrawal into ourselves with cell phones, computers, and videos and video games. None of these are positive cultural traits yet we not only enable them, we accept them as normal parts of our lives.

Just look at politics. We have accepted corruption in the local school board all the way up to the White House as a normal part of the American experience.

Why? Why do we allow these negatives to become the accepted norm?