I know my comment is a little presumptuous, to be speaking out for a country. But regarding the red-pilled and black-pilled among us, to me it feels like we all know the day is coming when what to do will be either clear, or at least, the time to take some kind of action has come.
My friends and I talk about it every week. We all know none of us is armed enough to stave off forever what we believe is coming. We all know we don’t have enough canned food or even ammo to last very long. But we keep acquiring and storing whatever we can, and if we can’t, evaluating the day to see what action we can take to prepare, anyway. Why? Because to do anything at all helps push back on hopelessness or even despair at what we see around us every day, or more so, what ***so many people*** are still blind to every day.
Deep down, most of my friends have a basic understanding, that they do not like to talk about, that at this time, if we all stood as one, we would all be mowed down as one. There has to be some kind of plan, or situation in which now, suddenly, we finally have more to gain taking action than we have to lose. As we watch those arrested on J6 continue to be tortured in their wrongful incarceration, and even Trump can’t seem to buy his way out of some of these conflicts, we know our families need us now, alive and present at home; not in jail where we can’t dissent, or stockpile, or network, or even encourage one another. However the time IS coming when they will need us even more—to take action.
We’re waiting. Not for nothing—we can feel it coming. Most of us can, anyway. At the risk of coming off cheezy, I can hear Mel Gibson playing both Mad Max and William Wallace’s characters, crying to ready fighters. “Hold!”
Meanwhile, the good men are frustrated by the lack of action, because by their own self-definition, good men take action. It is so important that they do not despise themselves when wisdom says to wait, stay steady, observe—check on the resources again and see if a new opportunity has presented to prepare in any other ways not possible the week before. We all know the time is coming, and it is this year or next year—whatever it is.
BTW, Dean, I so appreciate your writing. The stark truth is what many of us need for a regular boost. It reminds us all either we aren’t crazy, or, if crazy is what they call it, it still is the only conscionable way to be.
I know my comment is a little presumptuous, to be speaking out for a country. But regarding the red-pilled and black-pilled among us, to me it feels like we all know the day is coming when what to do will be either clear, or at least, the time to take some kind of action has come.
My friends and I talk about it every week. We all know none of us is armed enough to stave off forever what we believe is coming. We all know we don’t have enough canned food or even ammo to last very long. But we keep acquiring and storing whatever we can, and if we can’t, evaluating the day to see what action we can take to prepare, anyway. Why? Because to do anything at all helps push back on hopelessness or even despair at what we see around us every day, or more so, what ***so many people*** are still blind to every day.
Deep down, most of my friends have a basic understanding, that they do not like to talk about, that at this time, if we all stood as one, we would all be mowed down as one. There has to be some kind of plan, or situation in which now, suddenly, we finally have more to gain taking action than we have to lose. As we watch those arrested on J6 continue to be tortured in their wrongful incarceration, and even Trump can’t seem to buy his way out of some of these conflicts, we know our families need us now, alive and present at home; not in jail where we can’t dissent, or stockpile, or network, or even encourage one another. However the time IS coming when they will need us even more—to take action.
We’re waiting. Not for nothing—we can feel it coming. Most of us can, anyway. At the risk of coming off cheezy, I can hear Mel Gibson playing both Mad Max and William Wallace’s characters, crying to ready fighters. “Hold!”
Meanwhile, the good men are frustrated by the lack of action, because by their own self-definition, good men take action. It is so important that they do not despise themselves when wisdom says to wait, stay steady, observe—check on the resources again and see if a new opportunity has presented to prepare in any other ways not possible the week before. We all know the time is coming, and it is this year or next year—whatever it is.
Hold!
I hear you Dean.
I also wonder where some might draw the line. Many don’t know or want to - that there should be a line - one which I believe has already been crossed.
I cannot tell you here what I’m prepared to do or what I wish could be done in an organised time slot.
Wrong think! Right?
Keep up the valued writing.
BTW, Dean, I so appreciate your writing. The stark truth is what many of us need for a regular boost. It reminds us all either we aren’t crazy, or, if crazy is what they call it, it still is the only conscionable way to be.