For a few years, I have been uneasily maneuvering\u00a0through the society of the United States. The short version of this ever-increasing feeling is “None of this makes sense, but we are doing it anyway!” I have met many that think as I do and bet that you may think this way too.<\/p>\n
Blogs, pundits, talking heads and just about every water cooler conversation will fill you in on the specifics and details of the things in society that don’t make sense anymore. I won’t bore you with more examples\u00a0here.\u00a0My goal\u00a0is answer the “What do we do?” questions that most people ask me.<\/p>\n
The first thing you need to do is just relax. Seriously, you aren’t going to change the world tonight and all that stress you have created trying is emanating from you to your family, coworkers and anyone else in a 10 meter radius. Chill out! The practical result of relaxing is that you (I, they, we us…) don’t do our best thinking or performing while we are stressed. In the coming months, we will need to be focused, intentional and realistic. I learned a few things when I played\u00a0high school tennis. First, I learned that I wasn’t the best, skill-wise on the court. Second, I learned that if I made a slight, but audible laugh each time my opponent made a mistake, then they would more than likely eventually get so frustrated that they would nose-dive in their performance,\u00a0ergo helping me win!! If you are busy being pissed-off and frustrated, then you have little time to do anything helpful or productive.<\/p>\n
The second thing is STOP FEEDING THE BEAST! This concept\u00a0is multifaceted, but boils down to how you spend your time, resources and energy. Of the three resources, time is the most precious of commodities. You can’t get it back and you cannot create more of it. The head person of the GOP sent me (and a few million more) an email\u00a0asking for donations to increase the fight and continue the struggle to get the message out. Folks,\u00a0WE ARE NOT dealing with uninformed people or unconvinced citizens. What you see happening in the USA is the results of a multi-decade endeavor of\u00a0ignorance, selfishness, greed, corruption and outright running from anything that smells like truth or feels like responsibility. Don’t donate a dime or waste a second trying to bang your head against the wall trying to argue with the new power religion in America that is Progressivism\/Liberalism. You will lose both time and money and will be no better off.<\/p>\n
Take your resources and re-focus their capabilities to produce real, tangible changes and useful\u00a0tools in your world. I would recommend spending money on real things that can produce things for you and your family. Buy a gun, build a barn, buy a tractor… Seriously,\u00a0we are butt-deep in the\u00a0season of orgy-like acquisition that is somehow done\u00a0in the name of Jesus’ birth.\u00a0\u00a0Don’t you think that spending\u00a0hundreds at\u00a0Wal-Mart for crap that doesn’t matter and probably causes problems in you house anyway is a laughable waste of resources? But,\u00a0“Little Johnny might be sad and upset if he doesn’t get the super awesome electronic game wizygig!” Well, if Little Johnny gets sad or mad because you don’t consistently provide “things” for his entertainment, then you are absolutely part of the problem in this country and you really need to go do some soul searching\u00a0about what is important in life and who should be running the show in your house.<\/p>\n
I would also highly recommend that you learn how to do things. I would get a few books (the real paper kind) on how to grow food and make things. Get a book on first aid and triage medical care. Currently, land is cheap and loans are almost free. Pursue both.\u00a0 If in the end I am wrong, then you have learned how to raise children, teach values and provide for yourself. I don’t see that as a waste of time or effort.<\/p>\n
If you are concerned\u00a0with what the neighbors might say or with how this will affect your image, than I will offer a few choice words by Rhett Butler. Jokes aside, if are truly bothered with these things, then you may want to take a hard look in the mirror and ask who is in charge of you and who is running your life. AND IF you are happy being a mindless pawn and slave to the whims of social media, image building, the myriad of useless conventions then I will ask you to kindly do that somewhere other than near me. I don’t have the luxury of time anymore to be entertained by fools.<\/p>\n
— R. A. Grier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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