Many have said, I included, that we live in ahistoric
times. Certainly this jubilation over
work-at-home as a great new innovation exhibits that. Being able to go home
from work was one of the greatest liberations in human history. Envision life a few hundred years ago. The
peasants lived on the land, the artisans and merchants lived in their shops and
the feudal lord’s castle was also their offices. How many of you know of
shopkeepers, just a few generations ago, that were enslaved to long hours and
often six day weeks? But perhaps this pandemic-induced change will endure. My fear is making that decision blindly,
ignoring our historic experience. Cracks are already beginning: https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/07/01/fsu-bars-employees-work-from-home-care-kids/
Frequent headlines announce people and businesses fleeing
high tax/over regulated places like California for more business-friendly
places like Arizona. But what about future water supply? While I share their
motives, I personally wouldn’t move to a place with scarce water. Perhaps this
story is a harbinger: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/climate/southwest-megadrought-climate-change.html
This new obsession with racism, real or imagined, has been persuasive enough to affect me. Suddenly I find myself reediting my past. Rather than remembering the people I’ve known for who they are, its now whether they were black or not. Of course, this is the opposite of what is supposedly intended. This new attitude and resulting chaos reflected in many of our communities has produced a justifiable outrage. I share that sentiment, along with the fear of what is unfolding with those proposing and sometimes engaging in counter violence.
Aside from the obvious horror and
replay of Germany in the late 1920’s, don’t they see that they are just playing
into their hands? This series of events with predicable counter events, only
unfolds the desired dialectic for globalist control. Blood in the streets is not a good omen. As Brandon Smith said:
“Becoming a monster to fight the monster is the same as losing.” http://www.alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4268-is-america-heading-for-civil-war-of-course-it-is
They say politics is the art of the
possible. It is probably possible to get a bill through Congress requiring all
goods to be labeled as to country of origin. Not only the physical goods received, but via the means of purchase. Amazon just says “imported” on their
descriptions. I don’t want to support Muslim or Chinese terror. Never forget
the importance of the votes we cast when we purchase. I still find this common
sense despite the current boycott and buycott mania.
Endnote: I didn’t cite the three
articles above because I was promoting them or fully agree with them. But
hopefully they contribute to our needed conversation.
Copyright 2020, Mark L. Bennett
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