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The Essential Five Gs
01/April/2009 14:01 Filed in: Weekly
Column
This week’s article is dedicated to the memory
of Dale Anderson a compatriot from my college days
at both Eastern and graduate school at WSU, fellow
sojourner to the land west of the Cascades, and
Chronicle email subscriber. Dale died suddenly
Sunday. We pray that the peace of God will comfort
and direct his wife Pam and his family as they move
forward in this time of great economic
uncertainty.
Glenn Beck is the new rising star on the Fox News Channel. Much of that success that has allowed his show to rise to the number three most popular cable program stems from his focus on nine principles and twelve values of traditional American culture. These talking points are focused visually by adapting the “Unite or Die” flag from the era of the American Revolution. The problem with this number of things to remember is that there are: twenty-one things to remember. Without a teleprompter or some method of similar display, all those values and principles of something, get confusing and all mixed up.
For some time, I have been involved in cultural survival discussions that revolve around four simple words that begin with G. Those four are God, Gold, Groceries, and Guns. Those four necessities served us well, but as we move forward in this new era of 21st Century change, we need to do a little modification and add another point to make a total of five. Compared with the twenty-one on Beck’s list these five definitely qualify for the concept of KISS, keep it simple stupid. If kept in alphabetical order these five also allow you to understand the unique nature of the United States in the world.
So here is our list of Five Essential Gs: God – Gold – Grub – Gumption – Guns.
What makes the United States of America unique in the historical sense is that our Founding Fathers surrounded the means of prosperity with two absolutes. Put in theological terms the indicatives of God and Guns were the absolutes that allowed the imperatives of Gold, Grub and Gumption to grow and prosper without a significant threat to national unity.
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Glenn Beck is the new rising star on the Fox News Channel. Much of that success that has allowed his show to rise to the number three most popular cable program stems from his focus on nine principles and twelve values of traditional American culture. These talking points are focused visually by adapting the “Unite or Die” flag from the era of the American Revolution. The problem with this number of things to remember is that there are: twenty-one things to remember. Without a teleprompter or some method of similar display, all those values and principles of something, get confusing and all mixed up.
For some time, I have been involved in cultural survival discussions that revolve around four simple words that begin with G. Those four are God, Gold, Groceries, and Guns. Those four necessities served us well, but as we move forward in this new era of 21st Century change, we need to do a little modification and add another point to make a total of five. Compared with the twenty-one on Beck’s list these five definitely qualify for the concept of KISS, keep it simple stupid. If kept in alphabetical order these five also allow you to understand the unique nature of the United States in the world.
So here is our list of Five Essential Gs: God – Gold – Grub – Gumption – Guns.
What makes the United States of America unique in the historical sense is that our Founding Fathers surrounded the means of prosperity with two absolutes. Put in theological terms the indicatives of God and Guns were the absolutes that allowed the imperatives of Gold, Grub and Gumption to grow and prosper without a significant threat to national unity.
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