Beware those who watch the 'weakening shepherd'

Sir, we are here because God created us, and our highest societal calling is maintaining maximum individual freedom using minimum possible government, or more simply the American way.
I, too, was awed by the Olympic ceremony’s beautiful creativity, but the display showed not spiritual power, only power. Power to make 15,000 “volunteers” practice 10 hours a day for months until “perfect” makes one wonder what happened to those who were not.
The power of a Politburo member’s smiling words, “There’s a problem and you need to fix it,” made French director Chen crush the heart of the national singing contest winner. The 7-year-old chubby-cheeked winner with uneven teeth was replaced with a lip-synching “china doll” because “she did not present the right image of China.” In an interview Chen said, “The child on camera should be flawless in image.” All record of this interview was later wiped away, by the power that makes all appear as they wish … the power that erases anything and anyone that is not displaying a “flawless image.”
Many are unaware of the vastness of Chinese civilization, but the more dangerous blindness today is the moral relativism that sees no difference between the American and cultural revolutions.
An introspective free society identifies and changes evil behavior (slavery, women’s suffrage, Jim Crowe, civil rights), but an introspective society with the pure governmental power to enforce “social justice” is an evil behavior unto itself. For these pleasantly smiling oppressors, down becomes up, evil becomes good, and all action and thought must be “corrected” for the good of us all.
A great culture in decline must reassert the core values that first created greatness in order to combat the moral relativism that caused the decline. Our pre-eminent position in the world ensures peace and prosperity everywhere individual freedom has been allowed to grow.
Good and evil are real, and even with our faults, we still wear white hats. We cannot “let go of the attachment to the notion of No. 1” because the idea that “all the world and each other are one” is a dangerous lie.
The Dragon, the Bear and their toady bottom feeders eagerly watch the weakening shepherd ready to make we sheep their next meal, and “balancing the polarities of our own brains” is not a survival plan.
Ron Taffe
Shawnee