Opinion/Editorial

CAST YOUR FATE TO THE WINDS

 

 You, that’s right, you have a say in what’s coming.  What’s coming to you, what’s coming at you, and what might be coming after you.  The enormous inertia of the largest economic, military, and influential country on the planet is holding on like a Japanese fishing ball entrapped with braided ropes to hold up a fishing net.  That ‘ball’ is still afloat, and that ‘net’ is still holding on below.  Chaos is not reigning across the land just yet, but the thoughts about chaos are everywhere, as fear is much more of a motivator than is generally discussed, and fear of the unknown is the worst fear of all.

Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear…is fear itself,” and, for the country entering WWII, that could not have been a more accurate or correct statement. However, 405,000 died while experiencing more than fear itself, and over a million were wounded, not counting those who came home with PTSD (undiagnosed at the time).  You, yes you, do not want to be a part of either of those numbers quoted about what happened during and following that world war.

With all the wild rhetoric coming out of Washington D.C. from the executive branch, the Congress, the Senate and even the Supreme Court it’s impossible to ignore the ‘news’ as we find it, are bombarded by it in both all forms of media (the Internet, television and cell phones and personally with our communications among friends, family and even strangers we may meet.  Courts and attorneys are not being respected, believed, or trusted, and many of the people serving in justice are derided, yelled at, and threatened.  The Cabinet Secretary of Homeland Security on Saturday last referred to a sitting federal judge as an idiot because he made a decision she didn’t like.  Disguised ICE agents or those who are imitating them are making all sorts of arrests and locking people up in dreadful, torturous holes both around the country and sending them abroad to even worse hell holes.

None of this is happening right in front of you.  Not yet.  The huge inertia of the country, like a monstrous giant of a ship approaching a rocky coastline, continues to edge its way ever closer to potential holocaust and catastrophe, but not yet in your field of view.

Given all this, and also given the obvious fact that absolutely nothing is being done to tamp the rising fear down, to temper it with assurances of better times soon to come, to fund it with money when economic sustenance begins to deteriorate, and more.  Since none of that is yet happening and since none of what’s likely coming will be presented on national television or given to the public by formerly trusted figures, then matters must be considered for action by considering what can be known and is vaguely visible.

What is to be done?  First of all, don’t do what the author of this article is doing. Don’t stand out or speak out against the current waves of injustice that seem to be coming in daily, like surfing waves from a growing storm.  Protect yourself by becoming independent in speech and the written word.  Do not fight unless fighting is the last resort that has to be taken.  Begin redeveloping relationships of value, family, friends, and acquaintances that may have fallen away just because of time, distance, and the separation of the new cold-hearted electronic devices of our lives are forcing us.

When times of trouble come, and the U.S. hasn’t seen times of real trouble since that world war, it is important to have the assistance of everyone and everything you can bring to bear and then give the same to those you know, come to know, and trust.  Humanity did not rise to take over the planet by killing one another.  Humanity did that by coming together to face all difficulties and problems in social groups.  Lack of power, lack of potable water, lack of edible food, and the lack of social contact are the true major killers of all life on the planet.

Try to remember that, and also remember that the spoken word was not invented to communicate.  It was invented to cover activity. These are seemingly easy steps to follow to maximize your survival and the survival of those you care about.  Nobody, including this writer, can accurately predict what’s going to happen as things become tighter and tighter and the guns of America begin to make their appearance in all of our lives.  Be gentle, be nice, be as effective as you can be, for in combat, those are the three most important skills to exhibit, even if you don’t have them available at a hundred percent.  Human relationships are the most powerful force on the planet…sometimes referred to as love.

 

 

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