Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Think Small!
January 1, 2015
Here is the latest, and very interesting, Afterburner video by Bill Whittle entitled “Think Small!” In this video he talks about how America can still accomplish big things by thinking small.
In this video he talks about what I suppose you could call the conservative Utopian ideal of returning the power to the local and state levels.
My favorite line from this video is when he talks about how we used to teach our children how to think instead of what to think. Of course nothing that he talks about is going to happen, but we can still dream, can’t we?
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It may not be accurate to say this guy is never wrong, but I haven’t seen it. Listening to him made me try to remember my high school when we were supposed to learn about Federalism and the Federalist Papers. So I went to Wiki for a refresher. Holy crap what a mess. You want double speak and gobly-gook read that stuff. What used to be federalism isn’t anymore, and it is the opposite in Europe of what it is here.
With that in mind, What Whittle seems to be calling for, and what I am all for is what was called Anti-Federalism in 1776
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Funny how it is all backwards now, isn’t it?
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Hey Steve great post as always. Did you notice the Mass State House? Is Whittle a local guy? Think small my friend.
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He is actually from New York, I guess some good things can come from that state…
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All he says are good points! I remember back in school that we used to have parents come in and talk about what they did, kind of a show and tell. Do they still do that? It made alot of my friends want to go into certain careers by encouraging them to think what it would be like, not be told what area they should go into. When my son took his SAT’s, he had a high fever and was sick, but could not miss the test and retake it so he went. He scored a little low on the math, he came home and told me he just could not think, even though he knew it. When the counselor talked to him about the results, he was told he could hold a manual job from the scores. What a let down that was. I told him, it was one test, he knew why he didn’t do as well as he could have and to go for what he wanted. He did, had already been taking Industrial Technology courses at the jr. college while in high school and went and received the top scores at college in an Industrial engineering degree, and is now a Sr. manufacturing engineer at the top mining trucks producer. Not bad for someone that could only do manual jobs. They waited 6 months with an open position for him, they wanted him that badly and he was only in his early 20’s at that time. Now, had he listened to the counselor, would he have been that? By teaching children to think for themselves, at least we give them a fighting chance to become more than what someone else has already decided for them. This is what we have become as a nation. Doesn’t China do that? Place people into already planned positions, whether they want to do it or not? Well, guess my point on this is that unless our kids and grandkids are allowed to think for themselves the county will turn out like some of the progressive places and American will not exist anymore. So, Mr. Whittle has good ideas, actually great ideas, but without anyone to put them into motion we are doomed to sink lower and lower as a free thinking nation.
PS, we ran across that counselor years later, she asked how he was doing and when we told her, she said she knew he was going to excel, haha, guess she forgot what she had told him and what could have been a career buster. Guess that is why she is still “just” a high school counselor (no slight against GOOD counselors).
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That is a great story Lou, I am glad it worked out for your son! I love Bill Whittle’s ideas and I would love to see them implemented however I fear we have gone too far to get back to this.
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We’ve already taken the first step toward localization by keeping all the country’s small minds in one place, Washington DC!
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Peter, how are those small DC minds able to do such big harm?
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That is a great question Bruce!
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LOL Peter, I did not think of that!
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“History Lesson: America Is the Same ‘Ol Oligarchy It Was over a Century Ago” http://truthstreammedia.com/history-lesson-america-is-the-same-ol-oligarchy-it-was-over-a-century-ago/
“Gradually and quite naturally, there grew up the belief in a great conspiracy on the part of the very rich to ruin the poor.”
Bill’s common sense is the very thing the NEW & IMPROVED Reality of the ‘rich Agenda’ is purposed to destroy. Brings to mind our ‘friend’ Carl Rove: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
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Very interesting article, thanks for sharing. The more things change…
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