Backstory – World Upside Down
The last few months of 2016 in our house were spent in a stupor of political rhetoric, promises, accusations and commentary. No different from homes throughout America. But it was more than listening to the candidates and making your best guess to separate fact from fiction. Views and values were so opposite one another that it took really delving into each of them to try to sort things out. That was a lot of work!
Just when you came to a conclusion on an issue, something new would pop up that seemed to shoot down your well-developed logic, or lay waste to a new truth you thought you could hang onto.
I wanted to write about it; but not in favor of one candidate or the other. I wanted to voice the questions echoing in my heart. I wanted to stop the fear. No matter which way the election went, I could feel fear.
Looking back in my own life made it clear that this is not the first time that things seemed confusing to the average citizen. I was not yet a teenager when I cheered my first presidential candidate and proclaimed, “I like Ike.” Extremely uninformed of the issues, I was delighted to feel part of this important process. I remember how heated things got.
And reading the history of our country, I see that early campaigning was no less kind or gentle. Candidates went for the jugular!
With all this in mind, I took to writing this episode entitled, “Upside Down.”
Consider This Show – World Upside Down
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Things are so different these days. Sometimes it feels like the world is upside down. Right is wrong and wrong is right and it’s all so confusing.
Our Communication is instant and uncensored, with opinions developed often on inaccurate or inadequate information. No time to bother finding out the truth. And the very concept of truth is spun so completely that the truth is illusive, if not invisible.
Fear is prevalent daily – especially for parents.
Did our parents feel the same way? Were they as terrified as war raged in one part of the world or another and seemed to get closer and closer? Was there so much danger in the world then?
Or is it just that we didn’t have the capacity to hear instantly about every crime in every corner of every town.
Values are changing at break-neck speed. Do we go along with the new trends? Oppose them? Just sit around and shake our heads?
Are we caught up in pining for the good ole days? Or have we fantasized those days into something they were not?
So many questions; so few answers. Yet the decisions we make daily based on the facts we perceive create the quality of life that we enjoy or suffer in the future.
So much to consider. Such high stakes. God help us!
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