Some of My Favorite Things

Guest Post by Freed Radical

The other day one of my friends sent me a link to a video (as many of my friends do, daily), and there on the same page was linked a different video about the late Walter E. Williams, the brilliant conservative economist. As I watched, several times Dr. Williams spoke such truth that I felt tears coming to my eyes. Those truths were not profound, but so simple and basic that you might not bother to write them down. Yet, tears.

Surprised, I wondered how I, not a softy by any stretch, could have such a reaction to an economist! Well, this man was speaking plain truth, indisputable, immutable, and it was so refreshing and inspiring that it moved me deeply. Just listening to those basic truths was a cool breeze over my troubled soul, and made me aware of the desert of lies we live within. Those were tears of relief.

This has me thinking about our desires in life, you and I being conservatives, not politically, but let’s say spiritually. And not just spiritually in a religious context, but in terms of the noble spirit of those desires.

For example, we feel there is something right with the world when a person with a serious disability achieves or attempts excellence through superhuman hard work. A young man I know who had a debilitating medical condition was recently telling me how he wants to become an astronaut. He has not chosen the easy path, particularly with the side effects of the surgery, and the uphill climb will make him more a man than 99% of regular people. My spirit sings when I hear such recklessly courageous talk, and I want to fan those flames in him.

People like us who yearn to soar but are loaded down with the burdens of societal idiocy look to the sky with longing. When we see another actually soaring it gives us inspiration to spread our wings, throw off the weights, and lift off into the air. But it’s terribly difficult when all you see in media is people who have been told and are now believing and parroting that they were not born to soar. Or they are going to get sick and die if they don’t follow the other sheep. We need reminders, as Dr. Williams provided to me.

In this dark winter, with unknown people at the helm of our country and a sock puppet as the face of government, things can sure get depressing. To counter this flood of negativity from Washington, DC, and recapture inspiration, as Dr. Williams spread during his life, I like to dwell on the positive and lay claim to what’s right, and discard the junk. Here is a (long) list of some of my favorite things to do that enrich me, and things I joyfully reject that degrade me:

• • Accomplishing a goal or finishing a project

• • Solving a problem

• • Meeting a free individual and getting to know him or her

• • Resting in the fact that there are absolute truths and rejecting relativism

• • Not patronizing liberal businesses

• • Watching truth win an argument

• • Banning Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and all social media from my life

• • Avoiding the interstate highways for country roads

• • Talking with my spouse at length

• • Ignoring the television networks

• • Not spending money within the city limits

• • Teaching a youngster the value of a hard day’s work

• • Not taking any prescription or recreational drugs

• • Trusting Godly people

• • Growing and eating healthy food

• • Not casting my pearls before swine

• • Watching sunrises and sunsets

• • Spending time just being quiet

• • Knowing and teaching America’s founding principles

• • Leaving my cell phone off for long stretches of time

• • Serving the poor by telling them truth

• • Not owning a wristwatch

• • Showing a child the wonder of knowledge

• • Calling others to be free

• • Learning a new skill

• • Not suffering fools

• • Having patience with the ignorant while they grow

• • Using a real map, not GPS

• • Throwing sticks for a dog

• • Exploring historical sites

• • Hitting the bullseye

• • Laughing with friends

• • Being correct, but not politically correct

• • Roasting marshmallows over a fire on a cold night

• • Encouraging critical thinking

• • Playing and listening to good music

• • Listening to God

• • Avoiding movie theaters

• • Sidestepping pop culture

• • Listening to running water in nature

• • Looking into the eyes of a craftsman

• • Working hard until I’m soaked with sweat and my muscles hurt

• • Not needing the government

• • Earning calluses

• • Enlightening the deceived

• • Reading the Bible and treasuring it

• • Spending time with family

• • Honoring friends who have passed

• • Comforting friends who are left behind

• • Thwarting technology

• • Being someone people can count on

• • Living a low-tech life

• • Writing essays that affect people positively

• • Learning from my mistakes

• • Preparing for the future

• • Reading a good book

• • Teaching God’s principles

• • Refusing to submit to evil

• • Being idealistic, and being practical

• • Kindly letting people who do sloppy work know that they should do better

• • Boiling a complicated situation down to the basic elements

• • Understanding history

For sure many of these things resonate with you, and others are new ideas. Unfortunately, the slaves of government have been denied most of these benefits and attitudes, and unless you and I teach them they will live empty lives in service to the state, not suspecting there is more.

Don’t listen to liberals who would label these preferences as “white supremacy,” “white privilege,” or “racism.” Who says I’m white? Conservative African Americans also love these things. These items are preferences of free people, controlling their own lives, rejecting corporate and governmental slavery. They are called the Free People of America.

Instead of dwelling on the garbage in society, evil from Washington, and stupidity from media, can I ask you this week to just shut that trash out and dwell on the things that make our country, and our people great? This is not an Ozzie and Harriet delusion, but indulgence in real reality, rejecting the corrupt facade of society that the left has deceived most of the country with. Ozzie never got dirt under his fingernails, and Harriet simply could not run a tiller in those heels. That was a managed fantasy as much as the left wing hysteria.

As another balm of hope, I have taken to thinking about the future America, the one where freedom loving people rebuild our country after this one has crashed on the ash heap of history. All the things in the list above apply, of course, but just take a look at your day. You awaken and look out the window without the least suspicion that your society is plotting your demise, because it is populated by freedom loving people, and they get ahead by building up others.

You anticipate your day’s work, even with its problems and difficulties, and you know millions of people are also looking forward to their day’s work.

You read during breakfast a chapter of a book that you know will be discussed on the job, because your coworkers actually read books!

You check what cash you have in your pocket, having trust that it is based on something of value.

You like your job because people who get the job done are valued, and you like mentoring younger people in your vocation. Your coworkers do their best on the job.

You don’t agree with every last law your representatives promote, but they at least know how many genders there are, and they are not in it for the money because they have businesses they are anxious to get back to.

You wave at your neighbor, and though you don’t see eye to eye on everything you know they are not a collaborator. They love freedom as much as you do.

And you know that your fellow citizens are watching what’s happening in government, ready to punish those who slide down into socialism, for we have to be ever wary. Overall, you have a confidence in your country that was missing in your youth, and it is good.

Today, this life is prohibited because there is no room in it for government dependency. Tomorrow… well, we can change tomorrow. The future is ours to shape for the better.

I hope this list of my favorite things in life will be a cool breeze over your soul as well and will give you some strength knowing you are not alone. We are not only brothers and sisters in distress, but we are brothers and sisters in hope. There is no uncertainty about which direction is wrong, and which is right. There is no hope in socialism, only in freedom and the sources of power that make it possible. You and I know that in our joints and marrow.

Take from these things and improve your life and attitude, even with the senile on the throne. Picture yourself and your family in a reborn America. And will you contribute your favorite things that I missed, in the comments?

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