First, a little anecdote from my own recent life:
I put an ad on Craigslist for a guitar buddy… Two fellows answered my ad: one initially was into it and energized, but then called and said his wife was jealous. I said, she’s invited, too, to any meeting, always. I also told him I understand if it doesn’t work out. Don’t know about him.
The other one, we seemed to hit it off well; then he abruptly cancelled our meeting for yesterday with an email (cowardly, I say!) and with no reason given. But I know. And you know, too. THIS PAGE, I’m sure (why I can’t get a job!). And he was… angry, I could feel it. So I wrote back and told him I was sorry he’d been absorbed by the Borg, and that resistance is not futile… Still, disappointing.
Is this going to make me stop trying? Hell, no. I edited my ad and said I was a Truther, and into Unity and Freedom, etc. Because you know, I’m not going to lie down and cry because cowards are doing what cowards do. And I’m not gonna hide. I’ll play music with The Jabbed, if they will play music with me!!
Now, on to the stuff of this post, which is pertinent all over this whole situation, because if we’d stopped the US of A from allowing our media to be absorbed by the Borg a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now. Because CENSORSHIP and PROPAGANDA are not conducive to FREEDOM, duh. We all know this, but I’m gonna hammer it anyway. If we look at the Bill of Rights, folks, we can tick off everything we need to rabidly protect, and the First Amendment is first for a reason.
A free press insures accountability. Without accountability, there can be no justice. And without justice, there can be no peace. If we have no peace, we are not doing our jobs as citizens. Peace isn’t something our government might endow upon us, Peace is something WE MUST INSIST WE DESERVE, and WE are something we must insist our government deserves.
We should be willing to die for freedom, because if we aren’t, we likely won’t have any.
This documentary came out in 2014, but it was late even then, to be saying what it said. I remember things changing as early as the late 70’s. Anyway, I thought it was very well done, and you’ll recognize a lot of the people in it, and perhaps the things they discuss will be familiar to you, too.
If we learn history, TRUE history, we can prepare and be well-situated when it’s time to start to re-build, set up what we want, fix the things that are important to fix— all the broken things that we’ve lost— and to create anew the structural integrity of our future, socially, politically, and economically. For the children coming up. The children need us and it’s for them that we should double down and start thinking about it now.
Here’s the film: “Shadows of Liberty” (I hope this link is working, if not C & P!)
https://archive.org/details/Shadows.of.Liberty
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"We should be willing to die for freedom, because if we aren’t, we likely won’t have any".
Those who truly fought to make America something unlike anything in history were willing. We've been prospering because of their willingness to die to get out from under the thumb of tyranny. The 56 signer's of the Declaration knew they may have been signing their own death warrant. I shudder to think about... would/will there be 56 young men and women willing to lose their lives if presented with the same choice today? I'm kinda thinking probably not. They'd be too busy adjusting their flippin mask, social distancing, and checking their social media pages. I hope I'm wrong about that.
Btw, I play the double bass, but am having trouble getting back into practicing everyday again. As I workout everyday now, I have let my double bass lapse. I am in Manitoba, but am trying to find a way to play with the likeminded again also!!!