Therein lies the problem

Lots of folks, from politicians to used car salesmen, are trying to calm
fears associated with the COVID-19 pandemic by harkening back to
America’s glorious past. “We” can get through this, they say, because
“we” successfully traversed worse travails. The problem with that
analysis is the “we” has changed.

RTWT

I’ve said it other terms, not so socially acceptable terms, but that IS THE PROBLEM.

This country os no longer the place where THIS holds sway

WE are out here! But vastly outnumbered these days. Far to many without the means to think critically. Far too many that want to be told how to live.

And many sold a bill of goods by those in power with zero means of making good on a promise without stealing from future generations. (Sorry boomers, thats you! No offense intended.)

I moved to my current location with the intent of self sufficiency. While not 100% there, the final steps are well within reach; I’ve chosen to not make them yet because to do so will shut out further growth, both personal and financial. In other words, I’ll be too damned busy staying alive to live. We use exchange, not only to profit, but to ease our state of being. If I have to produce everything I need to live, then I am only existing, not living. No man is an island, and by trying to become so, gets swallowed up by the world.

Our current world does not look well upon persons such as myself. Independent. Thinking. Critical and judgmental. And really, as long as I can remember, never has. I recall being told by counselors in school what I needed to ‘become’, and I even tried once or twice. It never worked out well.

Why?

Because I live by this one sentence above more than any other.

“I want to take the calculated risk, to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.”

Y’all know from my blog (if you’ve been around awhile) that I am a dreamer, that I look to expanding my skills because I know dreams are not built with sand, but sweat and blood. I know I will fail, and embrace my failures. How else is one to learn the best lessons life has to teach. Success is both measured and subjective: my success may not seem as relevant to you as it does me; the differences aren’t important over the longhaul.

But what I am seeing, how our entire country just rolled over and showed its tummy to its master,,,

My disappointment is palpable.

Reread that sign. Do you agree with any part of it? Do you feel it represents your outlook?

Again, I find I have no answers. In this case, its due to my feeling quite alone, in a world of pansies and quislings, hiding behind piles of toilet paper rolls, barricaded in their homes against a virus, thanks to a media fueled by fearmongering, and an over-reaching government intent on another major power grab. (Do any of you think we will go back to where we were in March, before they started all this shit?)

Yes, the “WE” has changed. If what I am currently seeing is the defining point of what it means to be an American; count me out.