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Sunday, I head back to the salt mines to dig out that salt.\u00a0 I get back onto the galley and start rowing that oar.\u00a0 I return to the mill and push that millstone round and round.\u00a0 The mind deadening drudgery looms before me like towering wave that will roll over me and drown me in its awful size.\u00a0 So let it be written, so shall it be done.<\/p>\n

But for tonight I\u2019m content.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 So good enough.<\/p>\n

What I was thinking about today is that it\u2019s time to move beyond the election and all of that way of thinking.\u00a0 All of this anxiety over whether Trump will win or Kamala.\u00a0 Living in a blue state it really hardly matters.\u00a0 I already live under a woke communist regime.\u00a0 Really, all that is necessary is to start thinking about what things I can control and what I cannot.\u00a0 And just looking at things through that lens clarifies \u00a0my thinking and removes a lot of the anxiety that comes from depending on \u201cmagical\u201d processes.<\/p>\n

For instance, I supposedly have to vote for Trump.\u00a0 Well, I have to vote anyway because there are local races that I can influence the outcome of.\u00a0 So not voting for Trump would be kind of silly, so I will.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t imagine I\u2019m making any difference by voting for him.\u00a0 And whether he wins or not, my life won\u2019t change very much at all, at least not for quite a while.\u00a0 If Trump wins and a Republican Congress passes legislation that allows Trump to deport the millions of illegal aliens beyond partisan judges\u2019 ability to block him, then eventually after several years I will notice some improvements in my quality of life.\u00a0 And if he balances the budget and on-shores the jobs that were sent to Asia then I will see America start to revive.\u00a0 But that\u2019s a long time from now and I have a limited span on this planet.\u00a0 So, this election is almost an academic exercise in political philosophy.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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\u2019t share their convictions.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

And the same applies for other commercial or cultural organization.\u00a0 Especially if Harris is installed in the White House, I\u2019m 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And we\u2019ll have to become very creative at avoiding government interference, which means we\u2019ll have to become adept at camouflage and subterfuge.\u00a0 And even that secrecy sounds like fun to me.\u00a0 Belonging to a private club has its own pleasures.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 In fact, it can\u2019t help but be better, no matter who wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, I head back to the salt mines to dig out that salt.\u00a0 I get back onto the galley and start rowing that oar.\u00a0 I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,818,6],"tags":[4703,799,1354],"class_list":["post-31037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-ocf","category-trump","tag-adapt-and-thrive","tag-build-your-own-platforms","tag-current-events"],"yoast_head":"\nAdapt and Thrive - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/27\/adapt-and-thrive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adapt and Thrive - 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