{"id":24507,"date":"2023-06-25T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=24507"},"modified":"2023-06-25T00:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:13:52","slug":"learning-from-your-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/learning-from-your-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning From Your Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the mission?\u00a0 So that\u2019s the first mistake.\u00a0 When I was young, I was told by everyone that being an American meant that I could be sure that I was living in the land of opportunity and all I had to do was work hard and follow my dreams.\u00a0 And to some extent it proved to be true.\u00a0 What they didn\u2019t say was that this was a temporary situation and my children and grandchildren would be out of luck.\u00a0 Lesson learned.\u00a0 Opportunities are as you find them.\u00a0 Just because a college has a course in classical languages does not mean there are paying jobs for people who take those classes.\u00a0 Or in English Literature, or Art History or Gender Studies for that matter.\u00a0 There may not even be jobs for engineers or accountants.\u00a0 It\u2019s strictly up to you to figure out what people will pay for.\u00a0 And that\u2019s part of the mission.\u00a0 Because the mission is to thrive.\u00a0 It\u2019s not some automatic thing.\u00a0 You are constantly figuring out the changing rules and playing field that is life in 21st<\/sup> century America.<\/p>\n

How about safety?\u00a0 But America is the safest place in the world.\u00a0 We have safe water, safe air, safe food, safe medicines, safe cars and safe roads.\u00a0 There\u2019s the EPA, the FDA, OSHA, the DOT, you name it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got local law enforcement, the FBI, NSA, CIA and another dozen alphabet soup agencies keeping us safe from bad guys foreign and domestic.\u00a0 And yet crime, property and violent, are skyrocketing.\u00a0 To a large extent you have been thrown back on your own resources to avoid becoming the victim of accidents and attacks.\u00a0 Now you even have to consider whether the banks you keep your money in are safe from mismanagement and malfeasance.\u00a0 All of this is on you now.\u00a0 Where you live, where and how you travel and what institutions you interact with and trust, you must carefully decide these things and base those decisions on accurate evaluations of the way things actually are, not what they\u2019re alleged to be by the government or the press.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the federal government.\u00a0 The old joke was that the scariest words an American could hear were \u201cI\u2019m from the federal government and I\u2019m here to help.\u201d\u00a0 Well, they don\u2019t pretend any longer that they want to help.\u00a0 If the feds come looking for you, they\u2019re probably going to bust down your front door and perp walk you to their gulag.\u00a0 The government has made it their sworn duty to separate you from your constitutional rights and as much of your money and possessions as they possibly can.\u00a0 Avoiding the malevolent influence and attention of the feds may now be the number one priority of people who hope to thrive.<\/p>\n

But the picture isn\u2019t all doom and gloom.\u00a0 There are still lots of good people and opportunities to live a meaningful and happy life.\u00a0 What it takes is a mindset that accepts that life isn\u2019t a cakewalk and that the government isn\u2019t your friend.\u00a0 You must decide how you will navigate the hazards of our society and pass this knowledge along to your children.<\/p>\n

If you are realistic and aware of the pitfalls that have been planted in our landscape then you will have a better than even chance of avoiding them and living a rich and productive life.<\/p>\n

But for those who either can\u2019t or won\u2019t heed the danger signals and instead blunder through the minefield that is today\u2019s America, there is the high probability that you will become one of the cautionary tales that litter our society.<\/p>\n

Be smart, stay safe, thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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