I have had something of a revelation over the last year or so.
Many of us have seen the decline of civil society in America coming for years now. In fact, this is something I’ve been concerned about for nearly a decade.
Of course, this view didn’t win us any friends at backyard barbeques. At best we were labeled unpatriotic. At worst, conspiracy theorists.
Fast forward to today and the decline is evident to anybody who is even half paying attention.
Even those who enthusiastically supported the Covid regime at first – the masks, the lockdowns, the experimental injections – many of those people are starting to wake up. They have seen things that they can’t unsee.
In many ways this is validation for the concerns I’ve had for years. But I’ve also realized that I got something very important wrong.
Simply insulating yourself from the decay isn’t a solution. And thinking that somehow a better society will blossom from the rubble by itself is likely a fantasy. The late Gary North’s words ring in my ears here:
You can’t replace something with nothing.
That’s where I went wrong. I thought the game was simply to ride out the storm from safety and isolation. But that’s not living.
Have you noticed that society is rapidly self-segmenting, right before our eyes?
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