I stopped listening to Adam Carolla daily after overdosing on Podcasts a couple years ago, I was trying to keep up with 6-7 different daily ones and it was too much. I still enjoy hearing what he has to say, I just can't seem to find the time to listen to him. A couple days ago, while attempting to start weightlifting, I put on my earphones and listened to about half a podcast, some go on for over two hours, so it is as much as I could listen to before Wife came downstairs and started trying to communicate. You can't wear earphones and talk with people at the same time. But I liked the message he was trying to put out. He had been talking about Hamilton which is the reason I chose that particular Podcast and about the backlash that the founding fathers did not do more about slavery.
I wholeheartedly agreed with Carolla, slavery was an institution that had always existed, to try and start the colonies and at the same time change things would be a bit much. His beef is more with the present day people disgusted with the past. Our forefathers were fighting to free themselves from the bondage of a king too happy to collect taxes while providing very little. The protestors get the privilege of living in the today and complaining about back then. Like they say hindsight is 20/20. If the forefathers themselves and their wives didn't have free rein (they answered to a king), the people they bought to work for them were certainly not going to be a priority to get rights. Basically, Carolla's take is that people trying to change the past are going to be miserable because for all the complaining and demanding of this and that, you can't change the past. You just have to accept history and fight for change today. I still think those were great men, they managed to start this country that yes it took time, but was constructed in a way to allow every day citizens from coming to this land and making a name for themselves in this unique melting pot of a country.
There is also the other side of the coin on this. The dreamer, the person that wants to live in the future. This person is never content with what he has or the situation he lives in because he always hopes that things will get better and then he will be happy. Carolla's take was pretty brilliant, while some people spend today hoping for a better tomorrow, they forget to enjoy what they have in the moment. It is much better to accept life on its terms and be a part of what you have. I agree with this whole sentiment. People can riot for reparations, and demand things be corrected for things that happened 160 years or more ago, but that is not going to happen. You cannot blame the people living today for the actions of those living 200 years ago. I guess you can try and spend all your time planning and scheming for a better tomorrow but too often time runs out and you find all you did was hold up a banner in the name of something that sounded good in theory (I'm looking at you modern day college kids with your socialism), but not in practice.
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