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Mar. 30th, 2005 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusSo, among the many conversations I had at the con last weekend, there was one with a friend of mine who felt she wasn't doing enough to improve the world, counteracting the growing evil that is our federal government.
I mentioned writing letters to congress, and pointed out that there are several web sites, starting with aclu.org, that even have pre-written letters you can print out and mail in. They even provide all the addresses to your representatives to make it super-easy when you don't have time to thoroughly research various issues.
All this is well and good, and I do believe that it's important to do so, to let our elected representatives know that we do not agree with what they're doing, and are not happy about them sitting on their asses and letting things go because they're so afraid of limiting their chances of hanging onto their jobs they have made themselves irrelevant and useless.
But what I should have said (and, as usual, I figure out what "I should have said" hours or days after the fact), is that she's already doing the most important thing: raising her children well, and teaching them to ask questions, express their curiousity and creativity. Teaching them by example to be true to themselves while respecting others, and not be mired in fear and ignorance and hate.
And I'm putting this here because it applies to several others on my friends list as well. By raising another generation free of the superstition, ignorance, and thoughtlessness that has consumed so much of my country, not to mention by being good, decent, caring people themselves, they're doing a lot toward improving our world.
And I didn't want it thought that I have anything less than great respect for that.
I mentioned writing letters to congress, and pointed out that there are several web sites, starting with aclu.org, that even have pre-written letters you can print out and mail in. They even provide all the addresses to your representatives to make it super-easy when you don't have time to thoroughly research various issues.
All this is well and good, and I do believe that it's important to do so, to let our elected representatives know that we do not agree with what they're doing, and are not happy about them sitting on their asses and letting things go because they're so afraid of limiting their chances of hanging onto their jobs they have made themselves irrelevant and useless.
But what I should have said (and, as usual, I figure out what "I should have said" hours or days after the fact), is that she's already doing the most important thing: raising her children well, and teaching them to ask questions, express their curiousity and creativity. Teaching them by example to be true to themselves while respecting others, and not be mired in fear and ignorance and hate.
And I'm putting this here because it applies to several others on my friends list as well. By raising another generation free of the superstition, ignorance, and thoughtlessness that has consumed so much of my country, not to mention by being good, decent, caring people themselves, they're doing a lot toward improving our world.
And I didn't want it thought that I have anything less than great respect for that.
