I’ve started a series of posts on what seem to me to be the practical steps we need to take in the situation we find ourselves in. But in order to make it worthwhile I need to put some thought and some research into it. So, it’ll take a while to start and even more time to show much progress.
But I was just thinking of something that doesn’t take much deep thinking to say. So, I’ll put it down on paper (or electrons or whatever this medium is).
We all live in two worlds now. There is the day-to-day existence in prison world. That’s the cage that’s been built for us by the Deep State, the DEI/LGBTQ/BLM worshipping corporations, the tech companies, the schools, colleges, professional societies and most of the churches.
Then there is the other world. That’s the one made up of people who think like us. That’s your friends and family that haven’t drunk the cool-aid and still believe in the old world. That’s people you meet out in the world and on-line who don’t talk like an NPR broadcast with their careful use of pronouns and therapeutic tone of voice like they’re in a mental institution and don’t want to rile up the patients.
These two worlds are night and day. In one world every conversation you have and every document you read raises your stress levels and sets your teeth on edge. You’re always biting your tongue to keep yourself from saying what you really think. Every minute in this world drains you of joy and energy. You find yourself looking for excuses to wander away into the other world.
Then there’s the free world. Now this world is much smaller. And it’s fragmented. Some of it only exists on-line. It’s fragments here and there. This or that website and the folks that you find there. For me a large part of it is this place that I have manufactured out of bits and pieces of my personality. Here are a number of people I’ve met and who share some of the same opinions I hold.
Then there’s some of my work friends, guys I used work with. One group gets together every week for a zoom meeting and that’s a lot of fun. We compare notes on things and give our opinions on the various outrages going on and talk about old friends and enemies and where they are.
And finally, there’s family. People who know you better than anyone. With them you couldn’t even make believe if you wanted to because they’d know it was fake. Here are the people that matter most to you and you can say what you believe.
The free world is where you want to spend all your time. But unfortunately, that’s not possible anymore. So, we’ve all learned to compartmentalize our words and our actions to protect ourselves when we’re in prison world. We don’t want to rile the guards or the other prisoners who don’t belong to our tribe. That would put us in great danger and wouldn’t solve anything.
We’ll have to wait for my more practical advice to figure out a way to escape from prison for good.