A Noble Goal

Reader Contribution by Staff

I recently received this message from a European emailer: “Just found and read your site. It is good to find that there are Americans thinking and caring about the future and not just starting another war for the next few oil fields. I wish there would be more of your sort.” 

Is this what the world thinks of us? His email made me wonder.

I have heard it said (and I don’t think they were kidding): “He who dies with the most toys wins.” I have also heard it said: “You can never have too much power.”

Americans seem to want more. More fuel, more horsepower, more money, more growth, more GNP, more square footage, more sex, more entertainment, more freedom. More everything, really. Is having “more” our goal?

It gets worse. We seem to think that we should be able to have anything, do anything and say anything, anytime. We call this Freedom. Freedom and Responsibility go together.

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