Each of us has his own \u201cworld.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s made up of all the connections we use throughout our day.\u00a0 We\u2019re connected to our families by each word we pass, every facial expression we use to communicate.\u00a0 After that the average man is connected to the world by his phone.\u00a0 It is the nexus for all the calls, texts, e-mails, YouTube videos, news items, tweets, Amazon purchases, Google searches and on and on and on.\u00a0 After that we have the relationships we have with our job, with the various government entities and the various corporations that we employ to provide us with goods and services to live our lives as consumers.\u00a0 All of these connections give us a sense of being connected and grounded to the world around us.<\/p>\n
But lately more and more of these connections have started to have a disorienting effect.\u00a0 The head of the United States, Joseph Biden just gave a speech that declared, specifically that people like you and me are dangerous extremists intent on destroying the United States.\u00a0 And a while ago the top health expert in the federal government told us that unless we shut down our country and hid in our homes wearing masks over our faces, we would all die of a horrible disease.\u00a0 And around the same time, we were told that mobs of rioters looting and burning down the commercial districts of our largest cities were completely within their rights to do exactly that.\u00a0 But if anyone tried to resist them with a weapon that would be prosecuted vigorously by law enforcement as assault.<\/p>\n
If you read the news and especially if you read the mainstream media you might begin to believe that the whole world has gone insane and that we\u2019ll be headed for a new dark age any day now.\u00a0 Without a doubt, the people running much of western civilization have lost touch with reality and are trying to push the world in an unhealthy direction.\u00a0 I won\u2019t go through the whole litany but looking at some of the worst aspects; green energy initiatives, defund the police and transgender affirming treatments for minors, we can see that dangerous ideas have been mainstreamed by people with great power.<\/p>\n
All of this can make it seem like there\u2019s no place to turn for a breath of sanity.\u00a0 Part of the reason it feels so dire is that for most of our lives we never had to worry about most of these institutions becoming unhinged.\u00a0 Most of the United States was remarkably well run.\u00a0 And even the bureaucracies, although they might be incompetent, uncaring or inefficient were never working to destroy us.\u00a0 Now we can see they are.\u00a0 And in addition, private companies have jumped on board the project to speed up our destruction.\u00a0 Once you internalize that perspective it becomes easier to deal with the problems.<\/p>\n
Once you change your point of view and assume that none of these organizations is necessarily on your side, it frees you up to begin evaluating your environment dispassionately and systematically.\u00a0 This goes for all of the relationships you have.\u00a0 From top down you can start with your country, state and town.\u00a0 And from bottom up you can look at where you buy your coffee, what news you read and where you spend your entertainment dollar.\u00a0 Each of these is a choice.\u00a0 And granted, good options are hard to find in a lot of categories.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t excuse us from at least looking at the options and choosing the least bad choice.\u00a0 And if you put in the work, you might be surprised at the good options you never knew existed.<\/p>\n
Some of them are easy.\u00a0 Looking at movies and tv just read the reviews and you can pretty easily find out what sounds like woke propaganda.\u00a0 Another tactic is to buy local.\u00a0 Small stores are more expensive than megastores.\u00a0 But if you know for a fact that the owner is one of us then that\u2019s got to sweeten the deal quite a lot and might put a small premium in price in perspective. \u00a0And get involved in your local community.\u00a0 That can pay enormous dividends and will make you more aware of problems that may be coming your way.\u00a0 And finally, it extends all the way up to deciding what state or even country you should live in.\u00a0 It may seem extreme to contemplate such a huge change.\u00a0 But if you look at it dispassionately, it might be the best move you\u2019ll ever make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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