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I\u2019m often asked, usually by Shari, why do I do this?\u00a0 Somedays I\u2019m not sure myself, but I think it may be because for many years, though I felt as though I had something to say, I had neither the skill, nor the patience to say it well.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked very hard to get better at that, and by your responses it would appear that I\u2019m at least making some progress in that direction.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m about to post another article, and this one has more hard data (and sources) than usual.\u00a0 I apologize, because I know that can be boring.\u00a0 However, I\u2019m once-again addressing an emotionally-charged topic (like so many others), and I believe we are all better served by dialing back emotions and simply examining available data.\u00a0 We are living in a culture where lately, it seems that the more one \u201ccares\u201d about something, the more they feel compelled to render their “expert” opinion, and the less they are asked to produce genuine evidence in support of their position.<\/p>\n
What we end up with are interactions between opposing sides that, while provocative and possibly \u201centertaining,\u201d are increasingly less productive.\u00a0 This fundamental change is pushing our society off into (at least) two dangerous directions: the first is that more and more, we substitute fear for reason, and second, people are abandoning thinking in favor of feeling because they are no longer challenged to discern the difference between the two.<\/p>\n
We live in a great country, and I am both grateful and proud to be here.\u00a0 And though we may disagree on whether it needs to be made great again<\/em>, we should completely agree that we each have a responsibility to make it better (and greater<\/u><\/em>) everyday.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want what\u2019s best for me.\u00a0 I want what\u2019s best for US, me and<\/em> my fellow citizens.<\/p>\n This is our country, and our President, and our Congress, our media, our Constitution, our culture, our environment…\u00a0 we are in this together.\u00a0 But if we continue to increasingly view those with whom we disagree with contempt, we will fail, horribly.\u00a0 \u201cMy way or No way\u201d is a collective death sentence.\u00a0 I want the United States of America to be truly united<\/em>, for US to collectively flourish and prosper, and each of these writings is part of my humble effort toward that outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m often asked, usually by Shari, why do I do this?\u00a0 Somedays I\u2019m not sure myself, but I think it may be because for many years, though I felt as though I had something to say, I had neither the skill, nor the patience to say it well.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked very hard to get better … Continue reading “Why? This is Why”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-commentary-and-perspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyledwilson.com\/davidwilsonupnorth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}