"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt
April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt
There's a good saying: "History is written by those who show up". At some point somebody somewhere has to do something. We are in a world filled with people who try to get someone else to do something, so it's an extraordinary act to actually do something you want done.
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I'm convinced that Hollywood, whether by design or unintentionally, has conditioned the general population to wait for this to go from bad to really bad, because that's when the hero saves the day.
Why get involved in your community and spend time getting into a local office if the good guy is going to save the day anyway?
The public is conditioned to literally eat popcorn and watch the good guy win.
He always does. ..right?
Why get involved in your community and spend time getting into a local office if the good guy is going to save the day anyway?
The public is conditioned to literally eat popcorn and watch the good guy win.
He always does. ..right?