02-09-2024, 04:07 PM
(01-29-2024, 10:18 AM)Waterglass Wrote: My wife and I currently live among a ...
I consider ourselves as lucky to the extreme as I can only pray for those in the cities as a resultbof the administrations policies.
Were just bidening our time
Waterglass;
I respectfully suggest you revisit the information sources you are relying on which engender this sense of impending crisis.
It's not that I deny any of the patently valid observations they present, or even the lamentations they share regarding potential future scenarios. Is simply the fact that so much of the environment from which we cull our ideas and information is clearly designed to "make you feel" a certain way. To me that flags the potential for abuse, opportunism, and exploitation.
Also, I can sense a kind of disconnect in the outlying conversation. Some folks (probably not here) often want to project their imagined "end game" scenarios as resonating with the virtually continuous entertainment productions depicting endless chaos, self-serving mobs, and quasi-militaristic apocalypse 'crime lord" dramas.
I adhere to the simplistic definition of "civil war" as a war between organized groups within a people's state (be that a nation or some other collection of organized people.) Where such a thing occur, it seems unlikely that you would be alone in the scenario... war requires organization... that much is hard to escape.
The thing that many fear most is not actually civil war... it's anarchy. Civil wars frankly revolve around one group with an idea or cause. Anarchy means that the social contracts by which we conduct our survival in the human world are made void, or perhaps rendered irrelevant (where concepts like property, and sovereignty can only be expressed through force.)
We have long passed the point of human affairs where "everyone else" is a danger first, and a potential ally only after. Our model is as good as we could make it... and it is not irredeemable, we are social.
Hollywood, think tanks, and political thespians (activists) seem to thrive creating fear... this whole 'civil war' trope seems very much like a 'canned' product. Everything that provokes fear or fret seems to be crafted for the masses recently (perhaps I'm being naively kind) ... It reeks of theatricality to me... and where there is theater... there may be deception... so think hard before mentally consigning yourself to live in a world where doom is always around the corner.
I offer this question for your consideration... has there EVER been a time in all of human history when some people weren't proclaiming "we are doomed" or "the wolf is at the door?" If all order should evaporate in our country, are YOU going to go out raping and pillaging? What would make you believe that thuggery will help your survival? Be prepared... that is not unwise... but don't "project" evil into the notional world around you...
In closing, I suggest to everyone to cultivate cooperation. Help where you can, support those who do help...
You can't really "live" a life where all you do is clutch at everything while clenching your heart against everyone else. In my opinion, that is not really living.
MM
