Posted on 05/08/2022 12:05:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For the last two days I’ve felt an uneasy sense of grief, or of a heavy pressure on my heart. At first I could not figure out the cause of it.
Nothing unusual was wrong in my personal life. My loved ones were safe and well, thank God. The battle for liberty was ongoing, as it has been for over two years, but I was used to the rigors and stresses of that. What was the matter?
I was just driving with Brian over Taconic foothills, and through the vast early-Spring expanses of the beautiful Hudson Valley. The sun was shining. Daffodils, creamy-white and bright yellow, displayed their trumpets shyly in shadowy recesses under old ash trees with wide-spreading boughs. The lighter-yellow forsythia dotted the roadsides in a riot of buzzy color.
We’d just been talking to a realtor acquaintance who described how the area had changed when the city people fled their Brooklyn apartments at the start of the pandemic, to sit out the crisis in the gracious, creaky old farmhouses that they could purchase for a relative song.
We’d driven through reopened businesses flush with newly transplanted money. An old railroad car diner had been revamped and now offered curated organic-beef hash, and tasty, if ironic, egg creams.
We drove past little 1960s ranch houses with some land around them, now being redone with costly cedar shingles and white trim, for the farmhouse look that the ex-Brooklynites liked. Sotheby’s signs were out on the lawns already, in preparation for the lucrative flipping.
On driveway after driveway of the ex-Brooklynites, of the former weekend people — (and I confess that I too was once a weekend person, but something has happened to me in the last two years that has changed me even more than my change of home address).../p>
(Excerpt) Read more at brownstone.org ...
It appears that in your world, you can’t be supportive unless you join a cult where nobody thinks for themselves and all must agree on every thing. I don’t care for that world at all. It seems that many FReepers like you do.
But that kind of scenario is not what America is all about because America is about individual freedom, not lockstep mindless group think. America is great because of what a free people trusting in God do.
If you bothered to read my posts about Trump, you would realize how far off the rails your snap judgements of me are. He is God’s man for this hour.
But I have found it pretty impossible to reason with someone who shoots first and maybe askes questions later.
See ya.
You are very correct. Great article. After reading, continue to scroll to the end of the page and read the article on “Selfishness.” Again, another really good article. I’ve had this same discussion with a psychiatrist friend of mine… one of the smartest people I know but had also put on the biggest “dumb” blinders imagined.
The excerpt from the article talks about nothing, isn’t well-written and is not intellectually stimulating. Why waste our time reading the whole article?
All this anger over the Scamdemic but nothing about the stolen election. It is rather obvious the Virus was introduced to change election law enough to steal a landslide election.
“We’ve Only Just Begun’’.
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