Perceptions

It’s funny how people perceive things.    I’m  gonna use two instances from my day out on water with Brudda B.

First was getting on water.  Now, the water temps are somewhere around 60 degrees right now.  Might be high 50’s, or somewhere in the low 60’s.   Thats the fudged fact.   I, personally, do not find that to be cold.  COOL, yes, but not cold.   But as soon as B’s feet went in the water to get into our boats, his reaction was “Waters COLD!”,,,,    His perception was not mine, even though we were both feeling the exact same thing.

Second point.  Return trip.  We had the wind (light breeze really) at our backs, and paddling across a section of open water about half mile long (by our route traveled) we both felt like we were paddling in mud.   Didn’t feel like we were getting anywhere.   Later, I looked at the tracks in GPS, and that section had some off our highest speeds.    Perception didn’t match reality, even though both of us were present and accounted for.  

There is a LOT of division in this country right now.  Some say that its nearing explosive levels.   I can’t say they are wrong, but I perceive the explosion is going to come from a different point, but the divisiveness is going to be leveraged by certain ‘powers that wanna be’ and a large portion of General Pop is going to fall for it.    I mentioned in the last post, that Collapse is imminent and was baked into the cake back in 1913.  Only a percentage of the people in this country understand what that statement even means.    If you do, don’t congratulate yourself: it SHOULD be common knowledge, and Those of us ‘in the know’, need to be educating those that aren’t about it.   That such is NOT taught, like the Athens TN back in 1945 thing, many others too numerous to list: that these things are NOT taught to our children, says much about the nature of our education system.

I grew up with 1984, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, One day in the life of Ivan Donesovich, etc etc etc.     My take on Government tends to be a bit biased (BASED!)

So when I am hearing that someone wants to return the FedGov back to its Constitutional Limits, Hey! I’m all for that.   We aren’t going back in time, but that tyrannical mess in the Swamps off Maryland NEEDS TO.

But to get that done properly, PERCEPTIONS NEED TO BE FIXED.  And the only way to do that is by education or experiance (same coin, just different sides.)   Luckily, I didn’t have to go through the same things my Reading Teacher did to learn about the horrors of Communism/socialism (same coin, different names.)   Some others are harder to reach,,,,

And some people seem to think we NEED so much government to be where we are today,,,,

It was more than just us keeping  100% of our earnings:  it was a demonstritive LACK of government over-reach.   Very few agencies and bureaus to create law by book entry.   Innovation unchecked by Nanny State rulers.   And ABSOLUTE LACK of a welfare state; “work or starve” was the norm.   Yes, there were welfare groups out there, usually via the Churches, but also by Community Chest efforts: People knew that ‘bad shit happens to good people’ and would make efforts to help those UP, that had been knocked down.   

This era?   LOL   Generational Welfare is a reality.   Second and Third Generation peeps that are carried cradle to grave with FedGov funding.  

Guess which group is gonna feel it first when the bottom falls out?

Guess which group is going to have the hardest time figuring out “make do with what you have” (because they have nothing,,,)

Remember this: Poverty is the NORM throughout history.  Our current wealth standard (Where even the poor have access to climate control, Clean running water, healthcare that rivals anything from 100 years ago, and in a country that is having an obesity problem,,,) is not the standard from history: we are outliers.    That Outlier status was formed by limited government and unbridled freedoms.

Those that forget thier history, or worse, failed to learn it, Will not perceive FREEDOM like I loosely illustrated as GOOD.   It’s responsiblities, ethics, some egalitarianism, and ruthless at the same time.   Its HARD WORK

Freedom is NEVER Free!  And it MUST be defended.   We are VERY lucky in this day and age, where we may be able to prove wrong that statement of “no one ever voated themselves out of slavery”:  with one caveat, One man and a small team are NOT going to do it alone.   They need us, out here in the tall weeds to make noise and ride herd on those asshats that are going to try and undermine and sandbag the efforts.  We might even need to be loud at the Man and his Team,,,   IF,,, we do that, enough, often and LOUDLY (take a page from the Lefty tools,,,) we MIGHT, be able to see some return to those things that made this country great, again.

And we are going to need to teach the young’uns that, yah, its work, but the returns are Fukin’ fantastic.

AND MEAN IT.    I’ve noted the a lot of the young’uns these days can spot a fake/poser pretty damned fast.   At least the ones that aren’t drinking the Koolaid can.

Alright, babbled enough tonight, tired and relaxed after paddling 6+ miles today.   Brudda B is gonna sleep like a babby tonight seeing how he hasn’t paddled but twice this year, and not at all like we did today.   (2 miles straight out, no slackin’ off, until we hit our first waypoint.)   I did have to jump on him a bit at first and tell him, “B, this ain’t a race” or he would have been fried before we hit the first half mile.  Steady does it, and both of our boats can do 4mph and not kill a body, but take twice the energy to add 1mph to that.  

I digress,,,

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