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I’ve lived through some terribly turbulent times in our nation and in the world. Vietnam almost tore this country apart. Watergate was a severe wound. The Manson murders shredded the fabric of our culture. 9/11 was shocking. The COVID pandemic and ensuing political madness were bitter and disgraceful.
I now feel, however, that the disturbing malaise poisoning our current world is in many ways worse than all of these other events. It is literally as if the world has spun off its axis, never to find balance again. I’ve never been more concerned about the future of the human race. And the worst part of all of it, is that it’s predictable, and therefore preventable. Everything that’s wrong is staring us right in the face, and half this country simply will not join us in fighting and fixing it. It’s infuriating and depressing and maddening.
Actor James Woods
Amen
It’s because half the country worships the government and authority as if they are pure and undefiled, unless they are on the right, those who wish to conserve what is good are hated. As if progress requires the destruction of everything that made countries flourish. I don’t get it. What happened to staring the obvious degradation in the face and embracing the traditions that work to eschew it, to destroy it. It’s as if the past must be erased simply because it’s from the past. Half the nation has embraced 1984 as an instruction manual for how to live.
We were brought up viewing the world through rose color glasses, believing in the triumph of good over bad and that fairness would ultimately prevail. But we have suddenly learned that our world is not what we thought it to be. The veil has been stripped away. Evil stalks the land, the pure are its favourite victims and fairness is all but forgotten as corruption breaks out everywhere including within our own families and small social circles.
This is a cycle too. But its painful to watch as it unfolds.
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