Posted on 08/22/2013 6:37:06 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Two quite different 21st-century Americas are emerging. The nation is not so much divided by "wars" between the rich and poor, men and women, or white and non-white. Instead, there is the world of reality versus that of triviality.
In the vast plains of the Dakotas and the American West, thousands of men and women of all classes and colors are fracking oil and gas to create new energy for millions of homeowners and commuters -- while giving America a second chance at strategic energy independence.
Yet the beneficiaries mostly ignore these elemental efforts. They instead prefer to fixate on the alleged sexual creepiness of big-city political mediocrities like Bob Filner and Anthony Weiner.
As we sleep, 7,000 miles away there are still thousands of American soldiers of all races, ages, classes and genders in godforsaken conditions fighting the Taliban to allow millions in Afghanistan the chance for an alternative to medieval theocracy and to deter terrorists.
Meanwhile, back home, the nation is focused not on such existential struggles but transfixed by racial melodramas. (snip)
Yet part of America's confusion about what is important and petty begins at the top ... [and his] pretense sums up the growing void between real and trivial America.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Great read, thanks for posting. VDH is a national asset IMO.
From my new short story, Alas, Brave New Babylon.
4. TSUNAMIS
Sometimes in history there are social mega-tsunamis when demographic, cultural, and technological waves collide, sending up super-nodes that can be quite spectacular to observe from the distance and safety of a history textbook. They are much less enjoyable to experience personally. Pile up enough Kondratiev Waves and you might wind up at the end of a thousand-year super-cycle, this time with technology as the new rocket fuel poured on the fire.
Without food coming into the cities, latent societal fault lines exploded in a chain of sympathetic detonations. The young pushed aside the older generation that they blamed for sucking the system dry. The urban fought the rural when the cities were first emptied of food and then hope and then people. The devoutly religious battled the strident secularists. Big-government socialists, including most law enforcement, battled the libertarians and conservatives. Cross-racial tribalization fractured the fragile multicultural checkerboard. When the power went out and the panic stampede for the last food commenced, all the fault lines ruptured at once. The government, from local to federal, never had a prayer of containing the explosion of violence and destruction that accompanied the Great Starvation.
The horror was totally unimaginable even a week before the screens went dark and everything in our world went haywire. Unimaginable because the ubiquitous entertainment screens were perfect for one thing (and they kept this distinction right to the end): distracting the masses. Better than any mule’s blinkers, the pleasure screens both attracted the eyes and fed the mind happy messages. Whatever you wanted, they were serving it 24/7 on a thousand television channels and a million interactive websites. Pick your poison. Entertain yourself to death.
Germany has soldiers there too, for the same reason. I happened to see this on the tube yesterday.
I seriously doubt when either nation will have much of an impact on Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a God-forsaken country with few resources. Their politicians have been corrupt always. How can that be changed unless they become just another feeder nation off the Western nipple?
Yes, they are trivial, but they are hugely important indicators of a deeper problem in this nation:
We have turned our backs on God and what He has said in His Word about sin and its consequences and how He has made the ultimate sacrifice to overcome the consequences. We are a nation of unbelief in our Creator and His words to us in the Bible.
In addition to our state of sin that we inherited from our forefather Adam (he is the father of all races, by the way), our sins have multiplied and increased in wickedness and apathy, and there seems to be no remedy.
God, have mercy on our sinful nation!
“As we sleep, 7,000 miles away there are still thousands of American soldiers of all races, ages, classes and genders in godforsaken conditions fighting the Taliban to allow millions in Afghanistan the chance for an alternative to medieval theocracy and to deter terrorists.”
Why do we need to do this? If millions of people in Afghanistan want to oppose the Taliban, surely they know what to do. The Afghanis are such tough guys, you would expect the Tabliban to be wiped out in short order, right?
A people who deserve to be free will make themselves free and no one can do it for them.
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