I cannot let go of this painfully true quote by George Santayana (Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist):
THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT.
I wholeheartedly believe that we (ALL OF US) are on the fast-track to repeating the past, the ugly past. This time, there will be NO Allied Forces to help save us from ourselves. There will be no AXIS powers or WARSAW PACT or Democratic Republics or VC or Khmer Rouge or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to fight against. All of them are gone and all that is left of those failed regimes are the “ideologies” and NOT the realities.
Those that know of the REALITIES are told to “Be quiet, boomers” by those that have had luxuries all their lives and have never known the hardship and the hunger pangs of standing for hours in a breadline in front of a state run/controlled bakery only to find the shelves are empty because today’s quota has been reached.
To be fair, in a world of plenty those that believe they know better than anyone else have seen and felt the pain of scarcity when they hear the words “Our ice machine is broken so no Double Shot Latte Soy Half Caff Ice Coffee for you today.”
Oh, the pain and anguish. Of course, that pain and anguish is remedied by ordering a Tall Cinnamon Dolce Latte.
Folks, the realities of what people think is making a better world is nothing but a pipe dream. Those failed forms of government were only self-serving. Serving ONLY those in positions of power while the masses went hungry, left out in the Of course, cold, executed for criticizing their so-called “leaders”, sent to re-education camps for “questioning the government” or sent to a gulag all because individuals were no longer found to benefit the state.
Take a moment, reflect on the past, the present, and most importantly look at the future you want and the future you want for you children. Are they worth it? They better be. Choose wisely.
While this United States of America remains Free and the U.S. Constitution still stands as the Law of the Land then this is me exercising my right.
Yes, I said this.
-David