Why Do We Do What We Do?
This is the popular meme going around Facebook and other social media, vis-a-vis Colin Kaepernick and his supposed disrespecting of our National Anthem over this past week. The idea here is that he should be grateful for his huge salary, which has been provided on the backs of American citizens whom he is supposed to respect by standing for their anthem. First - we can't be sure that Dr. Carson said this. There are too many brackets and parenthesis to suit me. Second - if you took the time to read the lyrics to the anthem, you might have a different idea. A long time ago, I stopped celebrating Christmas, because I found it to be a Pagan holiday perpetrated by modern society. That was my choice, and not a popular one. If I had more friends it would have been a less popular choice. The song (poem) is about a war we lost, and the idea that "the flag was still there" is human emotion creeping into an...