dissent
Some people don’t like those who dissent from their ideas on how some things are done. They especially don’t like dissent by the Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce.
Since January 6, 2024, we’ve had two emails telling us that those in charge of “the way things are done” don’t like us.
We don’t care. We don’t trust people without a sense of humor or who cannot or are unwilling to think.
People who don’t have good ideas always throw rocks at people who do. It makes them feel better.
But there’s no growth or progress without intelligent dissent.
Dissent brings transition, changing that swirl of information within our minds, separating and streamlining and bringing clarity to that jumble of conflicting thoughts and emotions.
Without dissent there would never be a horse race or a football game. (My horse can beat your horse; my team can beat your team, etc.)
Unfortunately, the emotionally-disturbed and mentally-deranged disguise “dissent” and, like spoiled children, angrily use it to get their own way; going on a crying spree or a temper tantrum. But that’s not dissent, it’s destructive behavior, which should never be tolerated by adults.
Those eager or willing to preserve the status quo use dissent as an example of something undesired or harmful.
Ideas, however, should always be welcomed as not all ideas have the same value. Where people have a choice bad ideas eventually die – as shown by quick fads, styles, and no-taste that come and go. A good idea, one of an enduring value, however, will stand the test of time – and the challenge of dissent.
An endless variety of thieves – ranging from purse-snatchers, to those who steal from friends, private homes, businesses, banks, or even the tax from the Widow’s mite ( to give to the rich) – act on a bad idea.
Facing all this dishonesty is the great idea of dissent summed up in four little words: “You shall not steal.”
But we will have government do it for us . . .
And we have a government fighting to preserve a status quo while actively ignoring the idea that “Good fences make good neighbors.” And if you dissent from government policies, you are an extremist or domestic terrorists.
There must be dissent.
Without dissent, how do we know the value of what we’re doing? What are the yardsticks we’re using to measure the benefits of some idea?
Sooner or later, all ideas need challenging.
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