The Show Must Go On….

Musicians, artists, actors and actresses have been saying for decades-perhaps centuries or even more.

”The show must go on”

What’s that mean? I always took it to be that no matter what happens, if the city is flooding, the building has been burned, and half the cast has come down with dysentery…

the show must go on. Life must go on. You must do what needs to be done, and what you need to do.

Who can forget that on September 11th, 2001 the world was divided? Wait-you’re not one of those fools who thought we were UNITED on that day, are you? Think back and remember that half the people said, “911 CHANGEs everything”, and the other half said, “If we stop going to the movies or shopping or CHANGE in anyway then the terrorists win”?

I always understood the first half of the people who believed the day changed the world. Those people tended to see the previous years of America’s war with Al Queda as weak and pathetic examples of swatting at flies. The idea was that when two entire zip codes are flattened, a nation can no longer be content to merely swat, but should finally take more resolute action.

I didn’t understand the second part though. Even President Bush advised people to go shopping, to not change. The show had to go on. I disagreed with that logic. I thought it was wishful, deliberate, ignorance. It was like looking putting your hand in a campfire and denying the pain.

I was wrong. There is a vein of that secondary logic that holds true. I dare even say that I agree with President Obama on this perspective of “if we change in any way then they win.”

No. Sorry people, but President Obama is correct. Jonah Goldberg is brilliant, but in his latest oped, he’s looking in the wrong direction to respond/poke Pres. Obama.

Jonah is correct in that big business has never stopped working hard. Big businesses hire people and pay them big bucks and MAKE big bucks because they continue to work hard.

However, President Obama is correct. Americans have grown, soft, lazy, apathetic, and hundreds of millions of us (myself included) have cast aside our get-it-done attitudes. We’ve replaced “can do” with complaints and excuses of why we can’t. No one is exempt from this critique btw. Pres. Obama needs to get off his ass, get off the golf course, and use the energy from walking 18holes to walk down the freaking street to Capitol Hill and smack some dumbasses around!

And it rolls downhill from there.

It comes to YOU and I when we complain about our electric bill or gas bill….yet we choose not to buy a piddly 600w wind turbine off ebay which would cut your bill in half. We complain about pollution, and big oil, and gas prices….as we get into our new car and drive it to the oil company feeding grounds called, gas stations. We complain about banks having too much money…then we ask them for loans-not to buy an electric car or solar panels or to start a business, but for an iPad.

It’s time to stand up and remind ourselves that, The Show Must Go On. No more whining about this or that. Get up, and go do what needs to be done. The show must go on. If you want things to get better, you have to do you your job, and I don’t mean the job that gets you by and pays your bills (or comes close). I mean if you want things better than the job/task of making them better is not going to fall to anyone else. It will fall upon you.

Sitting in a park and complaining about government but then never running for town council or even student council…that’s stupid. Complaining that rich people are rich, and should give you money cause they earned it and you didn’t is criminal. The people who “discovered” this continent, the people who settled it, the people who fought for independence, the people who survived 14 depressions and recessions….those are the kinds of Americans who don’t sit idly by and complain. They stood up. They did what needed to be done. They waged wars. They liberated continents, and they freed hundreds of millions of people from genocide and tyranny. Oh, and they didn’t do it by throwing a tent in park.

It’s time to stop enjoying the simple life in the US. Even if you’re in the 1/3 of the American people who are living at or under the poverty level….you know what needs to be done. You know that if you’re professional skills are of value to someone else as an employee, then you (of all people) should be able to take those skills and use them as your own employer. Get up, get in the game, get in the show…..’cause no matter the hardship you have now, no matter your complaint

It’s time to look past those troubles and do what must be done.

The Show Must Go On

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