Category — Writing

Originally written: February 24, 2008. Revised: March 12, 2008.

I’m confused, aren’t you?

It seems as though by 2008, we as a human race should have figured things out. Yet, it seems as though what was expected of this era, isn’t so.

Instead, humans have become insane. Insanity, being that we do the same tired things over and over again, only to expect different results.

We seem to have lost sight of what makes us who we are; stopped attributing value to those things that are most tangible to us. Instead, as humans, we seem to have given our identity to someone else to assess; making something that was once tangible to us, intangible to someone who has no proximity.

We as Bozemanites, Americans, and humans are experiencing something of a cultural identity crisis.

As a possible prescription for this ailment, I offer my Manifesto Confundum (in five points).
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Holly Zadra writes about the LGBT community in February’s Tributary:

“If we don’t pay attention and focus on the right discussions and the right issues, America will create an expiration date for itself,” [Hemsath] continued. “This democratic experiment will come to an unfortunate conclusion. And the hypothesis for liberty and peace and freedom will be nullified because we failed to set that example for ourselves, and we failed to set that example for the rest of the world… The time to change the tone has come. As a society and as a culture, we’ve come to an impasse. We’re 21st Century. We’ve gotten past the Industrial Revolution, Women’s Votes, Civil Rights. Now we’re again trying to find out what it means to be a nation.”
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I had promised that I would draft a memo with information on writing a letter of objection regarding Rep. Denny Rehberg’s recent “prank.” The only newspaper to cover this story has been The Hill, a congressional trade rag, and that story is appended at the end of this post.

Please email me your letters, with your first and last name, and a mailing address, so that I can forward these to newspapers and our congressional delegates.

Tips for writing letters:
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