Is there a point?  I do not know.  I hope there is a point.  It would be horrible if there was no point to all of this.  Pointlessness would mean that we should just stop!  Stop what? Everything!!  It would mean we are just animals living on a rock floating around amongst billions of other solar systems.  That our existence is meaningless.  That our existence is not the unique and focal point we actually think it is.  That as animals we have no attachment beyond our familial relations.  What keeps us then tethered to our daily routines?  Why do we not just descend into a true animal kingdom, like a scene from the African savannah?

It is because we believe in something greater than our little lives.  It is this belief that helps focus our minds when we become distracted.  The thoughts of living a hedonistic life are what we must be on the watch for.  I am not talking about orgies and drugs, not a Roman or Greek idea of bacchanalian adventure, but the pleasure seeking me first attitude that so many people seem to be embracing today.  They seem to think or only want things for themselves.  As we become more progressive, not in our social thought, but in our ability to bring ourselves into a supposedly better future we seem to have become entirely self-centered.

There is a pseudo movement to think of the other, but this idea of helping others only falls into a narrow band of how the so-called progressive thinks things should be.  Outside thought that stands even slightly in contrast to the “progressive” is to be crushed.  People must be made to conform at all costs.  Debate is now only allowed in so far as a measure of progressiveness.  The left is as dangerous as the right in taking away our freedoms.  A new middle must be charted.