Inside My Mind

Think of Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act. The Democrats who run on the moralistic myth, which stresses charity and compassion, created and supported the bill. They said everyone had the right to healthcare and should be given equal opportunity and access. However the materialistic myth stressed by the Republicans asked Americans, “Why should you pay for someone else’s health care?” to appeal to value of self-reliance. America is pretty divided right now. To be fair, it’s always been divided. Polarization and demonization of the opposite political party/ideology has been relevant for decades. People say America is more divided than ever before. I have no idea if this is true. I mean the Civil War was probably more divided than now-a-days. While I cannot attest to the divided-ness of today, old people can. Old people say America is more divided than they’ve ever see. I hear this from my parents, from teachers, and from grandparents. With no personal experienc

I was asked to out write my ‘philosophy on life’ for my mythology class my senior year. I didn’t want to do it, because it required a lot of thinking and self-reflection. I sat down for a few hours and churned out a four-page or so paper on my philosophy on living life. It went something like this:                 Life is hard. Of course it’s hard. But you need to work through it. There will be moments when you feel like you’re drowning in pressure, but the only way to get out is to chip away at the obligations which are pressuring us. The way I see it, it’s like being stuck in a hole. You can sit and cry at the bottom. You can lay around trying to find an easy way out. Or you can get to work and start climbing out. You don’t have to do it all at once, and you can take breaks, but you make no progress without hard work. Don’t complain how your life is hard. Change it. If you don’t like something, change it. After reading American Values and Assumptions by Gary Alt