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I will say yes to it all
Pick a soap opera and run with it. But where are you going? What are you doing? To what end? We have silver, gold, guns, and lots of Costco toilet paper. We've got dogs, alarms, and meds to quell the constant, never ending cycle of anxiety to panic back to anxiety. There's a lot of sleeplessness and constant checking of bank balances and 401K's "just in case" because God knows if we walk up to our Bank of America ATM and they say our account is empty when our life savings is in there all hell will break loose. Yet people still trust in the banks. We have the conspiracy theorists: It's Skull and Bones It's Satanism It's Armageddon It's Slavery It's Blood for oil It's scalar warfare It's HAARP It's weather control in all forms It's the deliberate destruction of crops in order to starve us into submission It's big pharmas complicity with the government to keep us "in control" with meds while the opposite is happening. It's mercenary control and planned concentration camps for America. It's just the rich doing what they always do-get rich on the backs of others. Nerves are frayed. It seems that a lot of people are right near their particular edge. I'm hearing pretty often lately that: "If I hear or see one more thing about (fill in the blanks) I'm going to lose it." People are now brazenly robbing restaurants, gas stations, even toy stores at Christmas and food banks. Is it time to fracture off into "Every man for himself"? Or is it time for us to look around and say "There are entirely too many things that are out of control that need to be rectified." I think my two-year-old has the right idea. When his block cities aren't working for him he knocks all the blocks to the ground and begins to rebuild. Are we capable of such a drastic act? It's been done before. Quite often in fact throughout world history. Ask Italy, France, Germany, China, and Russia. Things break down and need to be managed, trashed, or rebuilt altogether. What's it going to be? What do you think?
I'm in L.A. trying to figure out how the heck to get out of here fast before the crap hits the fan.
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