The Rebirth of the Nations

We live in a nervous time. That is not unusual. The citizens of America and around the world are living in fear that their nations are in the process of being destroyed by enemies, foreign and domestic. Again, that is not unusual.

Contrarian that I am, I am here to offer you a different scenario.

Various friends and I discuss how the populations of the world’s countries have rendered themselves ever more diminished over the course of the past one hundred and fifty years. Humans are actually diminishing themselves. Humans are diminishing the lights of their spirits, their souls. We watch as one person, family, neighborhood, city, region and country after the next pull themselves inward in fear and trepidation. Life in general and life on a daily scale has changed so much that most humans feel like they are stuck. They want things — life — to be the way the way they used to be. The problem with that is that no one seems able to agree with themselves or each other exactly what the good old days looked like.

Do they want to relive yesterday or do they want the days of horse and buggy? That looks nice in a photo album, but in reality those were the days of outhouses, short lives if not death before age five, disease and long hard days of working six or seven days a week. Nutrition was terrible. Refrigeration, television, radios and movies did not exist. There were no streetlights because there was no electricity. There was no central heating and air conditioning. Weekends and holidays as we know them were nonexistent.

Too many people feel that everything is wrong with the world and getting worse. They succumb to naysayers, to those who go beyond being prophets of doom and gloom who are, in fact, working for the destruction of their own peoples and all of the world. Some of the negativists may have a paymaster. Some have several. Others are simply destructive and negative all on their own.

Watch.

Look around you.

If you think your world is coming to an end, you’re right. The world as we knew it has always been coming to an end. It has been coming to an end since it was created.

How and what we replace it with is our choice.

In the 1960’s I first heard my mother say that these are the good old days. She continued to say that for the rest of her very long life. She remembered how physically difficult life was a hundred years ago. She remembered the…