So, where we at?
To give some of the more obvious thumbnails ... [IMHO]
There’s China who comes off as being willing to stop at nothing. Likely, unstoppable.
The Russians, and their undetectable hypersonic long-range missile capability. Let that sink in. Can't see it coming.
Let me sidebar: Just mentioning two of this list of items. A won’t-stop China — and could well be unstoppable — and a Sword of Damocles Russia. What to do? More and better arms? So what. So we can put our hand one higher along the length of the bat? We may be entering an era where we’re running out of bat. On the current trajectory, if we toodle on down as before, we could be looking at not just another pandemic, but a global clusterfuck the likes of which it would not only be the first of; but very likely the last.
Let me sidebar: Just mentioning two of this list of items. A won’t-stop China — and could well be unstoppable — and a Sword of Damocles Russia. What to do? More and better arms? So what. So we can put our hand one higher along the length of the bat? We may be entering an era where we’re running out of bat. On the current trajectory, if we toodle on down as before, we could be looking at not just another pandemic, but a global clusterfuck the likes of which it would not only be the first of; but very likely the last.
What to do? I get it that we’re all, one way or another, trying to figure it all out. It goes that if we have all the information, and all the right information, we can figure it out. How ya doin’ on that? And, even after it's all satisfactorily sorted out, then what? The skies open and a voice will come and drop all the answers onto our laps? Okay, that's a little too. How about that the answers will just pop out of the fully informed algorithm in our brains. Imagine every damn single one of us coming up with our own best solution/description of reality? Would they all be the same? By some magic built into the whatever you want to call the store of all possible knowledge? Or, as is more plausible, we all would come up with something different. Of course, we'd group within like minds. Then, start to contest over intellectual position and dominance. Same old, same old ... just at a my abstracted level.
What to do? [Notice the built-in assumption that doing something is the way to go.] Maybe here’s something to try. Stop trying to figure it out. Stop "doing something". FULL STOP. If you think you have to figure it out how to stop figuring it out ... hold on a momentito ... did you notice right there how you are trying to figure it out? If you have no idea what I'm talking about. Fuggedaboutit. I have less of an idea than that. I like being smart about stuff. And, I'm willing to be 100% wrong on all of it.
Terrorists. The good news is that we’ve managed, after 21 years and how many trillions of dollars and precious lives, to make sure another small hand full of bad actors did not do something nasty on the home front. Never mind the actual happening right now possibilities with the infiltration of scores of such types coming over at the southern border. As we speak.
"Climate." Hottest year on record; ever. Fires. Drought. Devastating storms. Pollution. Violence in streets. Drug epidemic. Homelessness. Poverty. Illness. Not to mention the degradation of the soils, water supply, and oceans in support of a materialistic culture and growing corporate profits.
The culture. A culture bent on and predicated on gathering from among a phantasmagoria of entertainments and empty gratifications. The average person ignorant of their inherent, God-given nature. And, worst, a culture which doesn’t support, most definitely doesn't promote, looking into such a question; perhaps even stomping down any attempts.
Politicians who spend more time spinning their brand of sh#t and putting more shade on their opponents than on good governance. And who spend huge sums of money and energy to get a seat at the table where the odds for a big payday when they get out of the barrel are high. The only downside being that you might get disinvited to a swell shindig on some swell island, with some swell folks at the multi-million dollar digs of some guy who went to Washington with only a pocket full of change and is now living rather, and conspicuously, proudly LARGE.
Terrorists. The good news is that we’ve managed, after 21 years and how many trillions of dollars and precious lives, to make sure another small hand full of bad actors did not do something nasty on the home front. Never mind the actual happening right now possibilities with the infiltration of scores of such types coming over at the southern border. As we speak.
"Climate." Hottest year on record; ever. Fires. Drought. Devastating storms. Pollution. Violence in streets. Drug epidemic. Homelessness. Poverty. Illness. Not to mention the degradation of the soils, water supply, and oceans in support of a materialistic culture and growing corporate profits.
The culture. A culture bent on and predicated on gathering from among a phantasmagoria of entertainments and empty gratifications. The average person ignorant of their inherent, God-given nature. And, worst, a culture which doesn’t support, most definitely doesn't promote, looking into such a question; perhaps even stomping down any attempts.
Politicians who spend more time spinning their brand of sh#t and putting more shade on their opponents than on good governance. And who spend huge sums of money and energy to get a seat at the table where the odds for a big payday when they get out of the barrel are high. The only downside being that you might get disinvited to a swell shindig on some swell island, with some swell folks at the multi-million dollar digs of some guy who went to Washington with only a pocket full of change and is now living rather, and conspicuously, proudly LARGE.
South Korea. What can be said. It's there. Who knows.
And, Gentleman Joe. We sleep well at night knowing he has unambiguously drawn the line in the sand and under no uncertain terms has made it clear that if there’s any bad stuff — anything inappropriate going in the world — he’ll “Speak Out”.
And, Gentleman Joe. We sleep well at night knowing he has unambiguously drawn the line in the sand and under no uncertain terms has made it clear that if there’s any bad stuff — anything inappropriate going in the world — he’ll “Speak Out”.
Okay, that’s a dig on 46. Let’s not argue over it. We can certainly agree that it’s better than nothing. [Come to think of it, maybe that would be a good campaign slogan for the near future. “Better than Nothing. And, you can take that to the bank. Vote for me. Better than the other guy; who’s worse. Trust me.”]
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