Sunday, I head back to the salt mines to dig out that salt. I get back onto the galley and start rowing that oar. I return to the mill and push that millstone round and round. The mind deadening drudgery looms before me like towering wave that will roll over me and drown me in its awful size. So let it be written, so shall it be done.
But for tonight I’m content. I got plenty of sleep last night and I only had a couple of hours of lousy work today and even that was tolerable and unavoidable. So good enough.
What I was thinking about today is that it’s time to move beyond the election and all of that way of thinking. All of this anxiety over whether Trump will win or Kamala. Living in a blue state it really hardly matters. I already live under a woke communist regime. Really, all that is necessary is to start thinking about what things I can control and what I cannot. And just looking at things through that lens clarifies my thinking and removes a lot of the anxiety that comes from depending on “magical” processes.
For instance, I supposedly have to vote for Trump. Well, I have to vote anyway because there are local races that I can influence the outcome of. So not voting for Trump would be kind of silly, so I will. But I don’t imagine I’m making any difference by voting for him. And whether he wins or not, my life won’t change very much at all, at least not for quite a while. If Trump wins and a Republican Congress passes legislation that allows Trump to deport the millions of illegal aliens beyond partisan judges’ ability to block him, then eventually after several years I will notice some improvements in my quality of life. And if he balances the budget and on-shores the jobs that were sent to Asia then I will see America start to revive. But that’s a long time from now and I have a limited span on this planet. So, this election is almost an academic exercise in political philosophy.
Instead, what will be interesting and useful is to try and find private endeavors and resources that individuals can utilize and patronize either collectively or individually. For instance, if I ever finish my never-ending science fiction novel, I might decide to market it and advertise it by starting a go-fund-me page. Well, even selecting something as ordinary as that is fraught with challenges because many of these crowd-funding companies are either run by or strongly influenced by left-wing zealots who police these sites looking to cancel anyone who doesn’t share their convictions. So, researching the activities and tendencies of these types of sites is important if you want to avoid a potentially disastrous launch for a creative work like a book.
And the same applies for other commercial or cultural organization. Especially if Harris is installed in the White House, I’m hoping that various enterprises will spring up to service an audience from our side of the political spectrum who need everything from entertainment, to news, to snacks, to educational services, to dating services, to you name it. With the government monolithically leftist it will behoove us to become entrepreneurs and connoisseurs with respect to the things that will be unavailable from official sources. And we’ll have to become very creative at avoiding government interference, which means we’ll have to become adept at camouflage and subterfuge. And even that secrecy sounds like fun to me. Belonging to a private club has its own pleasures.
So, as the election date approaches, I have a new attitude about the future and I think it will serve me better than what happened after the last presidential election in 2020. In fact, it can’t help but be better, no matter who wins.