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Orrin Woodward Authors "Where Have All The Heroes Gone?" - 2nd Installment

Orrin Woodward - "Where Have All The Heroes Gone?" 1st Installment

by Orrin Woodward on Sun 18 Jul 2004 08:29 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

I wrote an article for the Team website that I thought I would review here. I believe America needs more free enterprise thinking entrepreneurs willing to serve and sacrifice for the good of all. Here is the first installment of many to come.

FOREWORD

The following article discusses the differences between a heroic vs. anti-heroic way of life. I will take you on a journey through the thought life of the last 250 years to learn how our worldview turned from the heroic view of life to the anti-heroic view. I believe the importance of our free enterprise system mixed with Christian principles is taken for granted today and that many people wish to see socialist and humanistic worldview replace the historic American worldviews. This article identifies the causes of our modern day dilemma and determines the way back to our heroic homeland. My contention is that Karl Marx’s socialist-humanist doctrine has infiltrated the American mind and has poisoned our national psyche. Without an emergency anti-poison, this nation is in danger of a slow and painful death. Socialist thinking has led to a wholesale rejection of the role of the heroic entrepreneur in America today. Without the entrepreneur who is the catalyst of growth, the free enterprise system will not work. The socialist doctrine that capitalism is theft has been bought to such a degree that entrepreneurs are scorned as thieves and anti-heroes. If this thinking is not changed and entrepreneur’s roles as heroes rekindled in the Horatio Alger tradition, then the death of America is at hand. This article is written not just for members of the Team, but any American who loves their country and does not want to see its downfall. I do not ask that the reader agrees with every point I make, but I do ask that we seek the truth together so that we will all grow in our understanding of what has made America such a blessed country. One of my favorite speakers, Bob McEwen said, “Freedom isn’t free” and I believe living a heroic life is a small price to pay for that precious freedom.