ALL is LOST

Robert Redford was an actor so handsome that nobody gave him any respect. He used his fame to donate fuck tons of money to charity and made a bunch of OK food to achieve this also.  He made a move when he was a pretty old dude, and it is awesome.  It's called ALL IS LOST. But that's just the title of this section...the purpose is really to say that all is lost for realzies.

Its hard to see when you are inside of it, but the USA didn't survive COVID and TRUMP.
There was no Grand Finale, no penultimate scene, only the denouement.

We have no national television channel or radio station that most people listen to. 

We have no method of learning what is really happening around the world, maybe we never did, but the big 3 channels and their nightly news gave us a sense that we were all on the same page together as a country...or at least we were all working from the same workbook.  

I know that old way was flawed, we didn't get to learn anything that "they" didn't want us to learn, but now there is no way to disseminate important truths.

I think Elon killed Twitter on purpose.  I think he knew that communication breakdown was a first step to destabilizing our country, and this was an easy way to remove one of the big global discussion tools, by removing safeguards, increasing prices, saying stupid shit constantly, not policing hate speech...

The truth isn't supressed in America, it is simply drowned out by other truths, by lies, and by inanity that passes for news.

Our leaders have crossed every moral red-line we had as a nation.  We cavort with killers, we support the murder of tens of thousands of innocents. We finance death around the world, and manufacture the tools of the trade.

I don't know if we were ever more than this.  I really don't.

Here's what I see is going to happen -

The weather will get worse.  People will try harder to get to safer places.  USA is amongst the safest places, so lots of people will try to get here.  We Americans need the labor, we need the bodies, we need the influx of culture and art and entertainment, but we are also so greedy.  Lots of us will say NO you can't come in, we will make them stay in the horrible places they tried to leave. 

Whole groups of folks will be angry with us for hoarding resources, pretending that Everything is Fine.  Palestine's attack on Israel should be a sign that similar attacks are headed to our shores.

We can't be fat, lazy, immoral assholes without it eventually coming back to haunt us.

Maybe you aren't rich, but you live in a rich country.  People who are poor and live in a poor country might just suffer enough to decide to try to do something about it.

We aren't heroes of the world, we never were.  It was all a lie they taught us in school.

We don't deserve the toys we have. We don't deserve the largess.  We didn't earn any of this.

OPEN BORDERS will save us.

OPEN BORDERS will save the world.