I have slowed down recently. I am focused on raising chickens and preparing my house for possible flooding in the coming rainy season. It is difficult to find reliable people to help around the property and I am a few months from 70 years old.

What is happening to our world?

#1 Lies Progress is like energy, everything just changes form

Everyday it is more evident that the things we grew up with, the histories we were told, the ways we do things, have all been lies or based on lies. We have been advertised, manipulated, persuaded, forced, and educated to take a path that’s sole purpose is to enrich a few. We have been brainwashed into believing that our lives are so much better now *new and improved*.

#2 Bad Health Safe and Effective

Most of the people I know now are extremely ill or suffering from various ailments. Young or old, if they took the so-called jab, they are medically in trouble. So, I limit my interactions with people. Relationships? They are based on if people are shedding viruses or not.

#3 Future Generations Off a Cliff

The young people are in trouble and are now becoming an added burden to society. They do not know how to do anything in a world where knowing basic survival skills will determine if they survive. Autism, chronic allergies, addiction, behavior problems, learning disabilities: when I retired from teaching in 2017, half my class had some sort of disability. Those students are all now adults and the upcoming group had their lives disrupted by lock downs and isolation so the future looks grim. When you think about it hard enough it is like the perfect plan to end our civilization was designed, put in place, and initiated.

#4 Inaction The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The wealthy are even more wealthy and play games with the stock market to get rich on wars and our misery. People get on their phones or computers and complain. I have a theory about that. Back in the day when people were upset about social injustice or the Vietnam War they did not sit in their house typing out their feelings, they went out in the street and organized protests, got arrested, got beat up by police, had fire hoses and tear gas turned on them. They were so angry they were willing to get uncomfortable for their ideals. Some were willing to die. And some did. I remember Kent State on the television. I also remember MLK, Maurice Bishop, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, JFK, RFK, Indira Gandhi, Anwar Sadat, Ngo Dinh Diem, Rafael Trujillo, Salvador Allende, Abd al-Karim Qasim, the list is very long…if you do not know who these people are, become knowledgeable and look them up. These people actually stood for something and acted upon it.

Now, the protests are relegated to snarky comments on social media from the comforts of home.

As Gaza burns and genocide is permitted by the powerful.

As innocent children are bombed.

As we discover the elite class is sex trafficking, abusing, killing, and eating children.

As environmental toxins are released into the air and water.

As we are sprayed with toxins from the sky.

As our planet is poisoned.

I had protested in the street when I was young. I taught my students how to research information and how to discover lies. I taught my own kids how to respect people and themselves. I went to jail for my protests. I participated in actions, voted, wrote letters, and lived in a responsible manner.

I am now older and very disgusted to see the mess the world has become. I am sure my father, if he were alive today, would be horrified to see that all of his sacrifices have resulted in very little *progress*.

My suggestion. Build networks of like minded people you can trust. Begin setting up local economies. Learn skills to become self reliant. Buy books!

Move out of the city. This is the most important thing you can do for yourself. The whole push to get people to move into cities and away from family farms was the major reason we are in the predicament we are now in. The cities were traps. In the city a large family is a problem. In the city people can be controlled. In the city people become dependent on the government and others to provide everything. In the cities we lost the ability to provide water, food, shelter, medicine, clothing, education, and safety for ourselves. We became slaves, wage slaves stuck for hours in traffic jams to get to jobs we hated, all to make the elite class wealthy.

all to make the elite class wealthy.

all to make the elite class wealthy.

all to make the elite class wealthy.

all to make the elite class wealthy.