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Who is American? What is happening to them, the nation. Cheers for what was, what could be again. I don't know about that. Like an old bison, whose days are short even if longer than many a decade younger, decades younger as some of them are going, to not be jaded would take the sort of nicety that saw and still sees planned genocides to international winks and nods.
No, jaded isn't the right term. Awake, aware, and old enough to remember a time when politicians didn't dare at the anti-American sentiment most now wear as a badge of honor. Even Hollywood stars were burned, even by their own, when they went too far.
What does all that mean? Time will tell. Either America will fall or she will cleanse her ills, pluck off parasites, and remove bad actors or she will become fully worldly and join the secular cesspool that is the rest of the world. Fast or short, but not far off, America and those living here will choose to open fully and completely to the world, or clothe herself, even in armor and go armed, in rejection to the world and it's beasts.
No longer my affair. I see no politicians with either the real will or ability.
This day, for me, is for remembering when America really was great. When a family of six children was small. When Mothers tended, actually knew, their children. When the military was honored and socialism and communism were, without a doubt, known as evil even by adherents, much as with satanism, drug use, and else. There were always flaws. Nothing, almost nothing, couldn't be worked out with effort and time.
Perhaps such a time can be had again. It would require blood. A whole next civil war? I don't think that much. It would require a deep state not of a communist backbone, what we have now. It would require men, at every level, willing to do what it takes, starting with making and keeping a family, creating and defending church and society, starting locally and moving outward. It would take doing the hard things that make these things possible, whether it be from the back of a hand, to a belt, to battalions of men ready, willing, and able to kill or die.
It is rare for a nation to save itself, without crushing pain even meth or heroin won't numb. Not my game, it's a young man's game. But I do remember better if harder days. I remember them well. I also realize they weren't the best of the really hard times. But I know it was those hard times that required family, church, military, and country.
One way or another it will return. The question is, at what cost.
Happy Fourth. And may God bless America, just so much as we deserve that. Amen.
"I see no politicians with either the real will or ability."
ReplyDeleteAs a space exploration enthusiast this manifests to me in a specially singular way. This country no longer has leaders with the vision, or the sense of national risk as a means of progress, to desire situations resulting in long-term benefits. They see no further than the next election, their strategy is limited to how much pandering is needed to solicit campaign funds from the greatest number of people. We used to be a vital and productive nation as regards the exploration of space (and even that effort required the fear that the Russians would reach the Moon first). It will take something along the lines of China or India landing on (and colonizing and developing) the Moon to provide a wake-up call. And, frankly, if we found ourselves going to sleep beneath the light of a Chinese Moon (and going on our knees to Beijing to beg for crumbs), it would serve us right.
"It would require blood."
A considerable amount, I would think. In 1941 it only took the bombing of Pearl Harbor (!) to motivate this country and turn it into a unified giant. Now I suspect many of the major cities on either American coast could be bombed (or at least occupied by armed forces) and, as long as phone service wasn't interrupted, a goodly portion of our population wouldn't care.
Fearing China, or Russia, is like fearing a child, as an adult. They could be dangerous, but not with any care. It does look like we are choosing to lose, but it's a deliberate choice... going along to get along, without a real need. As for a space race? The reason that hasn't occured is similar to why the arms race was dropped. White elephants, both. Absolutely nothing was gained.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge? Even hard sciences have given up, going to stupidly theoretical, if keeping white talented males out, and it being a social program, higher theoretical ed, for minorities and women, neither of which are actual minorities. Mob rule. Religion easily has more legitimacy, even philosophy does.
It's still a choice, but more blood would have to be spilled virtually every day. Though, as to leaders, to be honest, they can't do it. Point the way and hope WE do it. They are still too much in the way then making way. Keeping the rich rich and the innovative under the thumbs of the rich.
I keep forgetting how vested you are in space as a... truth for man. For discovery, for exceeding his bounds, perhaps inextricably connected to his survival. While I understand, and agree in theory, I have come to the conclusion that man is too fragile for that hope. And, if we should lift off and sail away, assuming the diaspora would survive beyond origin, it wouldn't be much longer. I know the hope.
ReplyDeleteLife is... actually not natural. It was made to be hard, even here. Out there? Over a very short span, because, because, a failed gasket, a forgotten scheduled maintenance, a missed dose, failed shielding, failed or dead batteries, a pin sized hole, any of it manmade, accidental, or natural... done. The space station is a marvel of will, at the cost of? Near orbit is costing all nations fortunes and at least one his mind, converted to a potential murderer. Then again, the secular are rather prone that way, and that is all who are allowed to go or be involved even at NASA any more. Go figure.