Yesterday was a sad day. Christmas eve, unable to get to my family, I was forced to have Jack in the Box for dinner. I guess the jumbo jack served as my turkey with stuffing. Tasty, very tasty I must believe. Now this morning, I woke on Christmas day to catch my flight to Los Angeles. I briefly caught the Christmas story on TV and for some strange reason I begin to think about my prior conversations and other events that took place in the last couple of weeks. For some reason I think the Christmas story reminds me of the conservatives of once was and what is today. I think conservative always hold on to the past. They see the tradition and often enforce some sort of control over matters. In a way I find that often lacking in today’s world. If you look at the Christmas story and other memorable TV shows, they often display the level of innocents or even naiveness of both the actors in the show and the audience. Simple thing such as respect law enforcement, or a student to watch out for that teacher that will send you to detention are to be respected. In a way being conservative pull you back a little in the way you think. Yet if we choose to be more progressive, often tag as for liberal, we seek to test the water. Seek to change the status quot on how things are done and believe that all should deserve a bit more. These two things can conflict and often people seem to have to choose either one side or choose one political party. When I look at it, the conservative and the liberals are in many ways in the two boats sailing the same sea searching the same destination, yet totally opposite paths. The thing we will all admit is that when it comes to the holidays or just the general respect of each are just not the same anymore. Something got lost in the time that has passed. As a conservative I am right to think that things were wonderful, yet it would be foolish to think that things will never change. But as a liberal, I also would probably agree that some wonderful things got lost, yet progressive events will make things better. Yet it is foolish for me as a liberal to think that progressive liberalism does not promote some level of chaos or the lost of time kept tradition. Funny thing is that as time has passed I see the conservative of today will die. The liberal will evolve. Part of the liberals will eventually slow down their progression and morph into modern day conservatives, while another part of liberals will seek higher progression. Thus that epic battle continues when someone will say “those dam liberals” and those narrow minded conservative.
So why do I say this. I think when you look at pop culture and the things that we grew up with were at one time once testing the waters. When you roll back the clock you remember how it was cutting edge. But when compare with present time it seems so innocent. With this holiday season I am reminded that sometime a little bit of conservativeness is missed and needed to be preserved, while the excitement for the liberal movement is to be welcomed to the new year and to move with the conscious social responsibility.
