{"id":751,"date":"2005-02-09T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=751"},"modified":"2005-02-09T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T18:00:36","slug":"organicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/02\/09\/organicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Organicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>What holds me back from bemoaning these survey results completely<\/a>, swiping at “kids today”, and taking the opportunity to do a standard curse of our educational system, perhaps personalizing it to the point of cursing a particular seventh grade teacher as a personification of “Outcome Based Education”, is the gut feeling I have that It’s probably not that different amongst the whole population at large.<\/i><\/p>\n

Take this result as a bit of evidence:<\/p>\n

74% say people shouldn’t be able to burn or deface an American flag as a political statement; 75% mistakenly believe it is illegal.<\/i><\/p>\n

Once or twice a year, the “Flag Burning Ban Amendment” is trotted out to score political points. If a majority of people thought a person shouldn’t be legally able to burn or deface an American flag, politicos wouldn’t bother trotting this bill out on such a regular basis.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve already said this: I’m not a fan of The Pledge of Allegiance. After the first six words, the question plagues me “Why am I pledging Allegiance to a flag?”<\/i> If someone tells me that a dear relative fought to preserve the flag<\/i>, my thought is “If they did, they fought for a stupid reason.” (If you had a choice between living in a Totalitarian Dictatorship that left the Stars and Stripes as the Official flag and living our dear Republic, which would you choose?)<\/p>\n

“The foundations of the country are vehemently about its citizens’ right to be defiant to tyrnnical and Godless authority.”<\/p>\n

It is at this point in time that I recommend we stop having our kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance and have them recite The Bill of Rights<\/a>. (Previously I thought The Declaration of Independance of the Preamble of the Constitution would be a just substitute.)<\/p>\n

It’s a bit more organic to our nation and sends a better message, methinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What holds me back from bemoaning these survey results completely, swiping at “kids today”, and taking the opportunity to do a standard curse of our educational system, perhaps personalizing it to the point of cursing a particular seventh grade teacher as a personification of “Outcome Based Education”, is the gut feeling I have that It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}