One feature of a generational crisis is a feeling among those out of power that the world is coming to an end and the game is rigged against them.
- That’s precisely how your parents thought things were in the 1960s.
- That’s precisely how their parents thought in the 1930s.
- That’s precisely how their parents thought in the 1890s.
- That’s precisely how their parents thought in the 1850s.
One group was right. Since the Civil War these fears have been overblown. Yet they persist. And with good reason. Because it is possible that something truly terrible is yet in the offing:
- War with Iran?
- Irreversible global warming?
- A stolen election (on a Zimbabwean scale) and true tyranny with the bark off?
- All this and more?
- It may already be too late.
This is not like the right-wing fantasies that Jesus Christ will come in glory to judge the living and the dead, if we just push the world over a cliff.
These are the real fears of intelligent people, people who are out of
power right now and feel (as a result) naked and helpless before
events.
It’s at times like this when "nonsense" like the idea of becoming fearless
starts to make some sense. Our forefathers faced the end of all things,
and they were scared, but they did not let fear paralyze them.
For 45 years we lived in the shadow of absolute nuclear holocaust, the
end of all things which might be caused by someone just making a
mistake. We survived. Before that we lived through a time when
one-third of all families had no income, and then a war where true
fascists did indeed threaten to destroy all liberty. Yet we survived.
Before that was a war to end all wars, a great Civil War, and long
before that our forefathers pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred
honor" — most lost all three.
Yet we cower in our beds before a President who, whether mad or merely
gravely mistaken, is just hinting he might try to bring the whole
temple down on his head. With all America has survived in 230 years
we’re going to be done-in by one Texan?
Not likely.
So get back to work. Don’t assume the worst. The worst is possible, but
it’s not as likely as you think. And if you assume it’s inevitable,
that there’s nothing you can do and the world really is coming to an
end, then the terrorists have truly won.
Some time back in DC there was a prostitute named Teresa Howell who worked as Summer Breeze. She died in 2003 and the coroner said it was because she was drunk and fell down her stairs.
John Berlau, a hack journalist with Reason and Insight got fascinated with this and for all anyone knows maybe he had already been fascinated with her, hard to say at this point in time.
He did his own investigation of a sort. He went after people who knew her and posted on various prostitution related web sites. I don’t know where this got him but it may have been the beginning of his association with the so called sex trade.
He’s worked with the police at least once and maybe more. He did this in the DC area. He helped set up both prostitutes and their customers. When you got busted if you would work with John on some book or project he is doing, they’d let you go. But, the rest were arrested.
So this is just some friendly advice and stay away from anything that seems to be tied up to this guy Berlau or any of a number of conservative projects. Some of them are REASON magazine and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. At least once he’s worked with a woman posing as a prostitute. Two likely ones are Solveig Singleton and Julie DeFalco, both at CEI right now. But both are brunettes and the rumor is that the woman was a blond but that’s what wigs are for I suppose!
Some time back in DC there was a prostitute named Teresa Howell who worked as Summer Breeze. She died in 2003 and the coroner said it was because she was drunk and fell down her stairs.
John Berlau, a hack journalist with Reason and Insight got fascinated with this and for all anyone knows maybe he had already been fascinated with her, hard to say at this point in time.
He did his own investigation of a sort. He went after people who knew her and posted on various prostitution related web sites. I don’t know where this got him but it may have been the beginning of his association with the so called sex trade.
He’s worked with the police at least once and maybe more. He did this in the DC area. He helped set up both prostitutes and their customers. When you got busted if you would work with John on some book or project he is doing, they’d let you go. But, the rest were arrested.
So this is just some friendly advice and stay away from anything that seems to be tied up to this guy Berlau or any of a number of conservative projects. Some of them are REASON magazine and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. At least once he’s worked with a woman posing as a prostitute. Two likely ones are Solveig Singleton and Julie DeFalco, both at CEI right now. But both are brunettes and the rumor is that the woman was a blond but that’s what wigs are for I suppose!