“…our concept of freedom and liberty, not exactly the same things, has been so diluted in our modern citizens that they really have no mental capacity to deny their emotional training, at the hands of government, to see clearly what has been lost.

Even though the intellectual capacity may exist in its raw state, the spirit needed to question oppressive authority is all but dead in a great many of our people. Many of them being too young to remember liberty are not aware that what we now have hasn’t always been so. By the time they gain enough wisdom to listen to their elders, their elders have died, taking with them the ideals of liberty and rugged individualism that made and kept this country great for many many decades. Until modern media simply overwhelmed truth and history. “–Straightarrow

R.I.P

Outside of a couple screwed business relationships, being direct has allowed me to know where I stand with people.

Fellow in smithy-land that I thought I was friends with, when it came down to brass tacks and I was direct about something his people screwed the pooch on, he decided to end our business relations and mollycoddle his employees that screwed up…even though he was making more out of it than I was, but it shows where people’s loyalties are…feel better, now that I know his true character, to not give any business to him anyway. I’d rather have people want to punch me or avoid me than tell them what they want to hear when I don’t agree with them.

Reckon you complimented me.

Thanks

I never found him at all blunt.