I REALLY LIKED YOUR POST! APPRECIATED THE GLIMPSE OF YOUR MIND.
SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD A RIGHT TIME OF IT. IT’S AMAZING THE THINGS A PERSON GETS TO SEE AND DO IF THEY’VE A MIND TO SEE AND DO WITH...NO MIND, NO NOTHIN’
MY FIRST TRIP CROSS COUNTRY WHEN I WAS A KID FROM NY TO CA OVER A LEISURELY 3 MONTH SPAN OF SUMMER, WAS NOT HOW MUCH RICH LAND WAS UNDER CULTIVATION, BUT HOW MUCH WASN’T.
THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO, BUT I BET THAT’S STILL THE CASE.
KEEP THE FAITH.
"MY FIRST TRIP CROSS COUNTRY WHEN I WAS A KID FROM NY TO CA OVER A LEISURELY 3 MONTH SPAN OF SUMMER, WAS NOT HOW MUCH RICH LAND WAS UNDER CULTIVATION, BUT HOW MUCH WASN’T."
We live in a country surrounded on 3 sides by abundance in our oceans, are blesses by great climate, geography, prevailing weather, perfectly situated rivers and bays, deserts filled with minerals, mountains full of timber and soils as rich as any other nation excluding none.
I was born and raised in California's northern central valley. It is one if not the most abundant favorable weather, natural rich soil and mountain snow irrigation areas in the world.
Many nations have little or none of the resources we have in the U.S.A. The question is: We are blessed with so much and yet some other countries with much less natural resources manage to produce an amazing amount of goods and services.
Think Japan and Hong Kong. Japan makes products that the whole world wants, yet has few resources beyond its people. Hong Kong has no resources but for its people and is the world leader in offering services.
Some nations and cultures have near the resources of the continental U.S.A. but produce only strife and a failure to thrive. Some nations/continents have the extreme example of the climate, geography, flora and fauna weather, soil types and poor if any river systems that all together result in a perpetual survival mode of existence that eliminates the prospect of surplus that allows innovation of civilization development over time.
Adam Smith in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations delineates the foundation of why some cultures excel at abundance and a surplus of goods and services.
Prioritize cooperation and facilitation via thinking less of one's self and more of your neighbor, i.e. The Golden Rule.