I’m hoping for another mild day. The overcast lasted all day, although it did get lighter yesterday afternoon. The humidity was high, and temps seemed to be in the high 70sF to low 80sF. I took off my overshirt when I was breaking down my scrap, and I did sweat a bit. The national forecast had us in clear yesterday (not accurate) and clear today. We’ll see.

I did auction stuff in the morning, and passport stuff in the afternoon, followed by a scrap run. That used all my afternoon, and evening was taken up with dinner and taxi for D2’s activity.

Today I’ve got pickups to do. I’ll try to combine a trash run, or taking some stuff to the shop or my secondary location. I’ll be driving past both in the course of my pickups anyway.

There was a line in the book I’m reading about our choices making up our lives, and our lives being the sum of our choices. It resonated. I’ve been coasting for a while, not making the difficult choices to prioritize and execute on some of the things I know need to be done. Knowing is half the battle right? I need to get more done.

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War is coming. It’s the nature of man to not be satisfied with our condition. It causes us to strive, and harnessed or guided it leads to progress – socially, economically, and generally toward the unprecedented wealth and prosperity that we have achieved. But there are always those who think that they can improve their own condition through upheaval and destruction of the very system that led to them being in a position to cause the change. It rarely works out better for mankind. The US revolution and founding is one of those rare cases.

We currently have a plethora of idiots, barely functional, running on cunning, self confidence, and spite, who have become powerful under the current world arrangement, but who can’t stop grasping for MORE. Their lack of intellectual ability will doom them to destroy rather than create. Rome coasted for a long time on the ability of those who founded and built the empire. So has modern Western civilization.

One only has to compare the writing and thoughts of our own founders, and the philosophers that preceded them in Europe and England, with the current crop of “leaders” who can’t articulate a guiding philosophy, accurately describe the world around them, or create something new. They can’t even put words into a coherent statement, or write a compelling and understandable document to communicate with others. They are coasting on the efforts of those that built and shaped and named.

They see the fat of the land and want it for their own, without comprehending that by taking it, they will destroy it.

So history will rhyme… and we’ll get war. As it has been, so it shall be. The snowball is already rolling down the hill, picking up speed, and can only be slowed or diverted temporarily. We are having ‘peace in our day’ but the cost is mounting and the bill will eventually have to be paid.

Prepare yourself and your family, your community, your friends, because history hasn’t ended, and mankind is still made of men.

Stack.
nick