Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

An apology to my children

On behalf of myself, and of like minded individuals, I hereby apologize to my children, to my granddaughter, and to the children of future generations. I know that I and my generation have squandered one of the greatest legacies ever given to a generation of humanity and saddled you with lifetimes of bondage to the state.

We stood by while the people we elected took the wealth of generations and squandered it, spending lavishly on foolish things. We have rewarded the profligate while demonizing the industrious. In the name of “fairness” we have taken the wealth of the productive few in exchange for a handout from an ever growing government.

Rather than building wealth to pass down to our children as our forefathers did we have sought after selfish pleasures. We would rather sit for hours in front of the television hoping for a chance to catch a “wardrobe malfunction” rather than read and study our history or compare what our Constitution says to what our representatives do. To us the actions of a scantily clad person of the opposite sex are more important than the achievements and sacrifices of those pledged to defend us.

We are a generation that has lost its way. We should know better but we have abandoned the wisdom of those that have gone before us for the seduction of our senses. Looking back we can see countless generations that have gone before us. They survived thousands of years of history, struggling to make their lives and their children’s lives better. We in our generation have decided that their collected wisdom is worthless, after all, we know better — we trust in science (or rather, that superstition that we call science, whether it applies the scientific method or not), not superstition. That is, unless it disagrees with our passions.

How is it that a new generation of humanity comes to be? Nature has shown the way. All it takes is the coupling of a sexually mature male and female of the species and a bit of time. A new generation will almost inevitably follow. Not so in today’s American society. In today’s society men couple with men and women couple with women — and demand their “right” to offspring. We’ve “risen above” our base natures. Risen above that is, unless you agree with the generations that went before that it’s our base natures that have led us to this state of affairs. But then, it’s homophobic, or at the very least judgmental to point that out.

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775 (as distributed by The Patriot Post.)

We are, each of us in my generation guilty. I cannot offer you wisdom other than that which was passed on to me by my forebears, wisdom that my generation has ignored and yours may never be taught. All I can offer you is my apology — that and my resolve to make amends such as I can. Of course, what amends I can make have to do with educating you, with voting for people that support the values I want to see transmitted to you — individual liberty and individual responsibility, and setting high standards, both for myself and you.

But… I do apologize for where we are today, and for the slavery to our government that you must face thanks to the folly of my generation.