I have recently moved around the Orlando area and unless you have been living in a cave, you have heard about the Casey Anthony trial that is ongoing. I have spent much of the last month watching the trial unfold witness after witness. I have also had the pleasure reality of observing first hand the decline of present day society. One has to look no further than to places like Twitter and the #CaseyAnthony hash tag to witness was our society has devolved to.
Just how bad has it become?
Now, I will not share what my beliefs are on the defendant’s innocence or guilt but I will say that I disagree with a majority on that particular hash tag. But to watch some of these so-called “moral” citizens that claim to be loving parents cast some of the most vial and repulsive phrases at a woman who under the Constitution of the United States in entitled to a fair criminal proceeding by claiming the “citizens of Florida” are wasting tax payer dollars for a trial that should never happen just because these individuals happen to believe she is guilty and have done so long before one minute of testimony had even occurred. The fact that I have witnessed first hand those that claim to be loving parents and educated citizens suggesting we fore go all proceedings and send her directly to Death Row and inject the needle tells me a lot about a society. It tells me about a society that I no longer wish to be a part of. It tells me that we, as humans who are supposed to have the mental and intellectual capacity to use reason, rational thoughts, and logic has become a society that wishes to lay blame on someone. We have subscribed to the mentality that someone must be responsible for all things bad in this world.
Then when we look at the current state of public education, Governors nation wide are doing their best to break teach morale while furthering an agenda that they wish to provide. But just like many of those in the Casey Anthony lynch mob, these same Governors are instituting sweeping changes about things that, frankly, they have no flipping idea about. It would be one thing if Governor Rock Scott actually has an academic background in the classroom and made decisions because he truly believed in the changes he is pushing and hoping for. I could actually respect that. But it’s not.
Just like the Casey Anthony gawkers. It is truly saddening that so many of those people do not understand the legal process or the inadequacies that accompany it. The fact that someone is charged with a crime automatically makes them guilty in the court of public opinion. To rehabilitate that images is far harder than getting a charge removed from your record. Even if acquitted, there is no way in the world this young woman will ever resume a normal life. She will no longer be employable much less find a decent suitor to settle down with and have a family. She will always be referred to as “tot mom” or formerly accused child murderer” much like OJ Simpson who was hardly, if ever, referred to as acquitted.
So what is the correlation to education you ask? It’s simple. If and when all of these new reforms cash grabs fail to accomplish the very things these idiot Governors promise, the damage will have already been done. For the last several years, we have heard that the reason for students failing is because we have bad teachers. Now that the playing field is changing, one has to ask just who are they going to blame next? The truth? It doesn’t matter. These same morons will be exiting their office long before the true results show success or failure. They face no accountability outside of election terms.
The other correlation is that the public in general is proving to be too stupid for their own good. Every one is looking to Congress and state elected leaders to deliver us from a horrible job market and down economy. This is very dangerous. Whenever the public is dependent on those in power to fix a problem, the dependency only grows further. There is no way the government is going to give back control. This is evidenced by the large amount of people working in government and the size government has evolved to. It is no coincidence that government (federal, state, and local) are generally the largest employer in every single state, county, and city. One other less reported fact is combined, they have one of the higher combined salaries of employment for their respective areas.
But you and I are more like Casey Anthony that any of us want to admit. While we may not facing charges of murdering our own child, our fate and our future lays outside of our hands and power. 12 jurors will determine the fate based off of circumstantial evidence that will dictate what type of sentence she will face if convicted just like our elected leaders hold the same power to legislate their own ideals regardless of the evidence. Both the jury and politicians will go home at the end of the day and pat themselves on the back and say to themselves “Good job, you made a difference today” while those who do not have that power sit idly waiting for the best.
Modern day society is not the world our forefathers envisioned for us when they penned the most sacred document to each and every American. Our forefathers were great men who envisioned life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to each and every citizen. But as our society has become dumber through the years, the heard-mob-blood letting mentality has easily replaced a society that was once compassionate and gentle and one that embraced everything our forefathers fought and died for. How arrogant are we to think that we are more educated and have a firmer understanding of basic rights to ignore and discredit their vision. We did not fight for our freedom, we benefited from their efforts. But to act like we are the judge, the jury, the executioner, or the authority on making decisions about what is or is not right in regards to our freedoms and education is just plain despicable.
