Harden Your Hearts

It’s a beautiful morning here in West Michigan.  The temperature is a pleasant 75 degrees, the sun is shining, a light breeze caresses and individuals are walking their dogs, jogging, or sitting on their back porches enjoying a cup of coffee.  All seems well in the world, but this sense of wellness is a facade, and the facade is collapsing, though patches are daily made to make the facade appear whole.

Many individuals do not want to see, understand, that the facade is what it is, a facade, and this fact complicates the potential consequences of the facade’s collapse.  All seems well in the world, but it is not.

I think the time is coming when individuals are going to have to harden their hearts against their fellow humans.  I pray that it were not so, but my prayers, whether falling on deaf ears, or simply unanswered, seem for naught.

Francis W. Porretto instigates my above thoughts in a post titled Making Amends: A Mini-Manifesto, which is worth taking the time to read and ponder.  A portion of Porretto’s post.

When—not “if”—the Corporate Social-Fascist State exhales its bloody final breath, the economy that results will not have provisions for those dependents’ support. As they will be unable to support themselves, their continued existence will depend wholly upon the kindness of others. But, given the immense damage that’s been done to our economic foundations by Progressive policies, the crash is overwhelmingly likely to be massive. Many of us who can support ourselves on our own abilities will be hard pressed. Many others will disdain to succor of persons they deem complicit in their own fates.

There will be suffering. It will be massive. Some will die.

Yet the reckoning is at hand. It cannot be delayed much longer: even if the rising some foresee should fail to materialize, our current profligacy and laissez les bon temps roulez insouciance cannot last more than a year or so from here. No matter how well politically connected you are, you cannot consume what no one has produced.

Harden your hearts.  This sounds mean spirited and uncaring, but if you care for freedom and those you love, you will have to harden your heart.  As the character The Outlaw Josey Wales says,

Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/10 at 08:27 AM

  1. Golly, John, great minds must think alike!  I wrote this less than an hour ago.  It’s a little long for a comment, but I’ll share it anyway.  Or I could shorten it up to, “What he said.”

    “People are going to be facing challenges that they never dreamed possible.  For each it will be different, but everything they ever knew—were taught, more precisely—is going to vanish before their eyes.  It already has for many in large part, but we’re the sort that are used to it!  I speak now of the people who never saw it coming, who will see their money turn to dust as their lords try to take them back to the feudal system, who never understood where food comes from, who never had the conscious knowledge of what Capitalism is really all about…people who peacably lived their lives and raised their families, who went camping and to the show, who did the right things just as they were taught, who lived upright lives, who worked honestly at their jobs…these are the people who will face great challenges.  They’re not going to understand what’s happening, and they’re going to suffer widely for that, as the Justice of Reality informs them that statism can never work, at least not in the long run.  You cannot live with false premises, especially when you know the truth.  It is no longer a secret…we are not bees and we are not living in a hive.
     
    “It can be awfully tough seeing this happen.  I’m in mid-Michigan, Ground Zero of the so-called economic collapse.  Decent people don’t like seeing any animal suffer, and a suffering human is about the toughest thing we can perceive.  I see an amazing amount of it, and so will you.  It’s not easy to ‘toughen up’ against such perceptions, but there’s nothing else to do.  As the Founders said in the Declaration, they must ‘right themselves’.

    “The Reason to be Cheerful is this—-they can.”

    Posted by Jim Klein  on  07/10  at  09:18 AM

  2. Jim,

    The challenges you note in your comment will take a good number of individuals almost completely unawares.

    This is not only troubling, but heart rending, for if savage uncivility raises its head as the facade collapses, the screams of the unprepared will cut through to even the most harden heart, which will then require diligence in keeping your individual heart hardened.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  07/10  at  12:21 PM

  3. Both of you from Michigan…I’m an economic refugee from the Thumb. Not that Preacher Ted’s Magic Kingdom of Ohio is much of a refuge, but it’s been good to me.

    When TSHTF, there will need to be space in the lifeboat for 1 stepdaughter, at least 2 grandchildren, and the woman next door. If my parents don’t die before then, they’ll die then…too dependent on medical intervention. Have a sister on disability near Flint; she and hubby can probably fend for themselves if need be. And the neighborhood will be a mutual aid-n-trade society. As for everyone else: I gave at the office.  Actually, I did for the kids too, but that doesn’t get me off the hook.

    And for what it’s worth: the Vatican is in the red for the 3rd year running.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  07/13  at  09:41 AM

  4. I have read this “Harden Your Hearts” article, interesting one. I’ve also discussed with my friends about your article. I like the way you start “beautiful morning here in West Michigan”. Thank you..

    Posted by Roy Gahagan  on  08/06  at  03:30 AM

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