It Takes a Village

….to raise a child. And I wonder, is this true also in other facets of society? Government is an obvious example of this fact. A Republic based upon the democratic checks and balance system, cannot hold accountable each sector without the governance of the others. To make sure decisions are fair and equal, another must act as a fathering entity, able to grapple and do away with the possibility of a governmental mutiny.

Thus, there is nothing more anti-democratic, than the Tea Party Association of Mars manipulation of the conservative-rights stance on the necessity of unions. Without question, they’ve come from the stars, probing a fair and equal system with a galactic inhumanity.

It is impossible to incur wealth without the backs of the poor. Cheap labor and ghettoization, foster reliance upon the charitable notions of the upper class. Without charity, the poor though most strong willed and industrious, are fed to a dog eat dog societal paradigm. To insight an ideology that unions should be done away with, goes against a system that ultimately, founded old lineal wealth.

It is like trying to take a breath without lungs. No lungs, no air; death my friends.

Which means Western Societies new-individual, is everything un-American. Individualism when led by a strategic understanding of checks and balances; big business and unions; and inner and outer economics, is the miracle grow to not only a healthy individual, but a healthy stag of individuals.

Therefore the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, but at least all parties are partly represented. And the birth of true leaders are born.

I have never seen a champion of individuals arise from professional or collegiate athletics. Every team has the glue-figures, the cogs, the men or women who lead by example and draw from each and ever player their strengths.

Examples of sporting democracy, are being held in the hands of modern day Gladiators.

In 2006, Kobe Bryant was nothing more than a self-feigned scorer. A player who had piggy backed Shaq to the likes of three rings. A self-centered chick in a tight bikini more concerned with her figure, then with everyone and everything else. But in 2008, a nice gift wrapped in an ugly Spaniard face, came in the form of Pau Gasol. He was the hard working wheel washer.

Took time for Kobe to learn an ancient sporting discipline:passing. Now that he has, his twin towers have betrothed the Lakers back to back. It took a village, and Pau was the Lakers medicine man.

We must remember than in all arenas of life, it is best to not only 1) Lead by example, but 2) remember that there is strength in numbers. Too many of us live for the hollyweird spotlight like a hamster in a circus hat, spinning in our very own plastic wheel. Kobe was not far from this a few years back, when he quit a decisive game clincher against the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the playoffs.

That off-season he toyed with the brilliant (right..!) concepts of signing with teams like the Los Angeles Clippers. I think, it would be fair to say Kobe had been maddened by a me-first-gimme-gimme disease of the brain.

But as it be, the basketball gods had another idea. First, re-sign Fisher, the Billy Madison of the group. Then two year later, wrap the ugly Spaniard, in a nice facial wrap of scraggly beard, crooked teeth, and a silky smooth fall away ten footer. Every me-first-gimme-gimme disease can be combated with an honest soul willing to pee their pants too.

Welcome to the art of sporting socialism.

Thank God for Laker fans the peeing stopped. And for Kobe, thank God Jim Rome had nothing more to harp about.

It takes a village. Be un-American and throw off this individualism. Embrace the guys in the high water corduroys, without the sour stench of urine dripping from his/her crotch. He might have a name of something like Thedore Stizenfeiker, have a bad case of Halitosis, but he is real. And those whom make things wholly honest, are few and far between.