Greetings,
The world is a fragmented and dangerous place: Russia, India, Pakistan, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Israel, Gaza, the wandering Palestinians, N. Korea and Iran and their minions in most of those countries seem hell bent to spin up more death, more misery and more debt — pushing the envelope to levels that wreak and warn of world war. Four of these countries listed above have nuclear arsenals! It is a very dangerous game played to satisfy ego, religious leanings, and in truth, to spin up flagging economies. Hamas, the Houthi, Al Qaeda, Isis, et al could not exist without war or preparation to war. Putin has jumped the track with his actions verses his jargon, bombing the Ukraine while in peace talks.
The European Union is lost to woke, DEI, the Muslim Brotherhood, debt, and some sort of paralysis to the extent that they are no longer recognizable. Canada is sliding toward that slippery slope as well, with a newly elected Globalist leader. Britain is not even recognizable. China, a once isolated place of millions, is rushing toward some sort of global supremacy that has become threatening to the rest of the world with a massive military, nukes, aggressive trade attitudes and production capabilities that is starting to get in it’s own way. China has flooded our country with “students” that are reporting observers with some as out and out “spies” for the last 20 years.
The USA is finally fighting back to recover it’s industrial might demanding fair trade practices with all those that have for years taken advantage of a country that had nearly lost it’s way. For some reason, decades ago, the USA began to feel that it could accept trade policies that were only deemed good if they were bad. It is interesting that when we, the USA, begin to treat our neighbors in the same manner they have treated us, we suddenly are perceived as authoritarian.
The whole world is heavily in debt and we have come to a place where the piper needs to get paid or the music will stop, maybe with a bang.
It seems that many have adopted the idea that war immediately fills the dark hole of debt by flooding cash into economies that have no other source of a cash flow fix. And it is true, war feeds the military industrial complex but the destruction, death and borrowing only re-distributes the latest flurry of larger debt owned by fewer people. We never learn that such a corridor eventually narrows more and more to a point where that road just ends with no recourse but to stop the war and build again. Then, we do it all over again. WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and now proxy wars. It was a 15 year cycle that has become a 5 year cycle.
The world has become crowded with warriors, subset mercenaries, weapons salesmen, and brokers that continue to push this mechanism to instant economies never realizing that one day, if these ultimate weapons are finally deployed that they will end it all. This may be discovered too late when one nutjob finally pushes that red button, if for no other reason that he wants to see the grand finale’ up front and in person.
Religion also drives a lot of this insanity and is used as a tool, lever or linchpin to motivate it’s followers to enlarge itself with hordes of people hiding behind, defending, exercising, proliferating or following their particular Deity to rationalize war. The Hindus have several Gods, the Muslims have Allah, China is officially an atheistic state but does allow versions of several religions, the Buddhists have Buddha, the Christians have Jesus. Humans have a knack for taking the best ideas and turning them into mechanisms of deviousness and destruction to justify ego, rationalize selfishness or to exercise power, never mind that most of the participants and the spoils of that war will become ashes and rubble.
The age old issue of the Muslims and the Jews have divided these folks since Abraham and his offspring, Isaac and Ismael, Jew and Muslim respectively, for 4200 years and we are experiencing that division to Biblical proportions at this time. We are not sure how Islam can be considered a religion since their mantra is to subjugate and ultimately kill all others. That reality will prove out to be the divide that will influence the fate of the world. Sharia law and the Jihad do not fit within the definition of religion or freedom. Cambridge defines religion as “attempts to morality”.
Please note: The Muslim Brotherhood, is just now getting set to begin their worst in our country.
Having stated the diatribe written above, we can see that our country IS under siege and has been for a long time. While the rest of the world is racing headlong to a catastrophic clash, we are fretting over pronouns and bathrooms.
I have been writing this blog for 8 years and to the best of my ability striven to state the truths that apply to our lives on this earth with study, research and observation.
My conclusion is that we have become distracted and coerced away from proven axioms of good living. In the USA, we manipulate those writings that would give us opportunity to become the best that we can be, The Bible and the Constitution. We strive to re-invent the wheel over and over and discover and re-discover that it works best when in a state of roundness. We stray from worship, fight wars to protect our way of life and then vacillate away from those very axioms that we protected by winning that war. It has become a circular and downward spiral.
I have learned much in my writings, probably more than I have taught. I remain firm that we in the USA are the most fortunate people in the world and should cling to our bibles, our constitution and our guns at all costs because they are the two most important documents written that would allow a people to govern themselves as they worship their God. Guns are a last resort to protect those two documents, ourselves, our rights, our freedoms, our families and our property. They are ultimately an equalizer in the face of internal and larger external tyranny.
I have howled at the moon for many years writing this blog to learn that people these days are not interested in reading thoughtful and hard fought word compilation to at least gain one more piece of a balanced clarity. I have enjoyed large participation and I have never asked anyone for a dime. Newspapers are all but gone, editorial comments have become emotional rants on social media, even the rehashing of a good football game in print is hard to find. Magazines are going bust right and left and the Farmer’s Almanac is considered witchcraft, even though more accurate than scientific computerized weather reporting, crop predictions or weather trends. I think that we have come to feel too rushed to take the time to read. It reminds me of the machine gun salesman that is turned way from his prospective customer because his customer is too busy making spears and arrows in preparation for the impending battle.
We are a distracted society that rushes through eight second sound bites to “feel” informed, we rush through family gatherings distracted by text messages from strangers, we inhale a meal rather than dine, and cut short efforts to real communication so we can jump on face book to be inundated with staged portrayals of others that we have not seen for years. We rush through cutting the grass but never take a moment to sit on the porch to savor the results of that grassy manicure. It seems that yard work is done for the neighbors and not ourselves. At the end of the day, we know that we were engaged for 12 hours but we can not remember much of what we did, who we talked to or what was said. Multitasking simply lessens quality that suffers by increased quantity, so the rush seems to turn out a nemesis to both quality and quantity.
I yearn for those days of yesteryear where friends, family and pets gathered on the porch after dinner and took a breath together. The kids chased fire flies, the dog chased the kids, Grand Pa sharpened his knife, Grand Ma stringed some beans and as Ma and Pa pitched in with the beans everyone savored the evening air and talked about an upcoming pot luck dinner, a fishing trip that was Historic or Aunt Jennies ailments.
That kind of lifestyle does not have to disappear. We can live it or pretend to live it on an impersonal keyboard while watching TV and checking our phones every ten minutes, all at the same time.
Speaking of keyboards, I am putting up my keyboard, shaking out my fishing poles, searching for the latest haunts of good luck earth worms that might entertain a few wary fish. If you hear someone howling at the moon from a cypress backwater, it will mean that I caught the big one or that I didn’t! You’ll know the difference!
Thanks for reading, thanks for motivating me to personal growth and good luck to you in all your endeavors. I am going to take my own advice “to do” rather than click away on a keyboard writing about doing…
Remember, that which God requires of us, he has already given us.
We all have to sort this predicament out in our own way, hopefully with guidance and work. I have done that! We are never excused from our responsibilities as citizens but for now …………… I am either, at the town council meeting, at a church meeting, “gone fishing”, stringing some beans, cutting the grass or napping on the porch swing with the cat while I thank God and pray for a bit more time to “do”.
Vaya Con Dios
Be aware: Did you know that the word “Amen” means, “Let it be so” or “so be it” from the Hebrew word, Emunah. I mention this because some orange haired woke lady (at the grocery store} asked me the other day if I realized that saying Amen at the end of a prayer was toxic. Awomen? Nope! Emunah! Maybe a little reading would help her understand her ignorance. her paranoia and her need, “one more time” to become a victim, even in prayer.
Beware: Attitude can become a self fulfilling prophecy! Apparently, it has for many millions these days.
Maybe I should begin to teach remedial reading and keyboard abstinence but then I would have fewer stringed beans and fish.
TPP
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