(11-07-2020, 09:27 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(11-07-2020, 09:19 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote:(11-07-2020, 08:53 PM)Ninurta Wrote: That would be reasonable.
In times of crisis, history is anything BUT reasonable.
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We are not prisoners that have to repeat the errors of the past.
We can make a new history.
I know that nobody wants to hear that.
I love to hear that - I just can't bring myself to believe it, just going on human nature.
Humans are creatures of habit. That is why history repeats itself - we are creatures of habit who, as a species, tend not to learn very well from our mistakes... so we recreate those same mistakes at every opportunity.
Humans, as a species, are panicky herd beasts, and the panic setting in does not improve their prospects.
A few more enlightened ones, here and there, can take a new path... but the masses, the herd, is gonna burn some crap down whichever way it falls.
I'm not trying to be alarmist, nor am I promoting war in the streets... but what I do or don't do will not affect anything in the slightest. What comes, comes, and as history indicates, it might not be optimal - and I believe that forewarned is forearmed. I hate surprised of an unpleasant variety, and would rather everyone be prepared for darker days instead of being blindsided by them.
ETA: I'm too old now to take it to the streets, even if I wanted to. The most I can do is sit at home, and wait for them to come to me - and indicate to them that their law, or their mob rule, ends at my fence line. Either way, I die... but I'm good with that. I'm done here on earth anyhow, and just coasting onward to The End. I've already done everything I can do, and nothing is left now but the final curatin.
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We are the uncounted masses, all in one place, a generation with no time left to start again. Our children are our hope, and if we taught them well, perhaps they will Save this American Dream.