Saturday, July 10, 2010

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 John Venlet on 07/10 at 08:27 AM
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