GET YOUR HAPPY ON! - a meliorist worldview

I have noticed that some folks on other blogs have labeled me a spambot, and it has me rather confused. Isn’t a spambot an autonomous worm-like program that spammers use to leave advertising in e-mails and on comment billboards?

Am I a spambot simply because my liberal opinions rankle the embittered spirits of the anti-ACLU crowd? Sometimes, I get a spam filter thrown at my firewall, even when I visit friendly sites. Curiouser and curiouser.

Blogging has really been an interesting journey for me. When I have had the free time, I have gotten to share my opinions in a somewhat open forum. In semi-Kantian fashion, my thoughts will (in some imperceptibly small way) help shape others’ thoughts. I wonder if I’m doing enough though. As we leave behind the first failed American Presidency of the 21st Century, the U.S. needs to learn how to embrace a forward-thinking approach to problem solving; we need to embrace change and possibility — rather than cling to untenable safety.

Otherwise, I fear that so-called “conservatives” may find themselves rattling their burdensome chains like displaced Jacob Marleys, as they plead with future generations to learn from their socio-economic and geo-political indiscretions. (I’ve just been all over the map with the literary allusions in this post, folks. My ADD must have gotten the better of me today.)

Be good to yourselves, my friends. Forgive yourselves your pasts — you can’t change them — but don’t stand in the way of your children’s future. Why would you want to fix the problems of today with solutions that have never worked in the past? When I see the Children of Tomorrow in my mind’s eye, I don’t see them running around in a polluted world filled with casinos and guns. I see happy faces in a world of love, generosity, harmony, and peace. Be good!

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